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Mia's marble shows several colors. 2/3 of the marbles shows some red, 3/4 or the marbles shows some yellow, 6/7 of the marbles shows some blue. Mia has fewer than 250 marbles. How many of Mia's marbles show some blue?

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Answer:

144 marbles show some blue

Explanation:

You want to know the number of Mia's marbles that show some blue if 2/3 show some red, 3/4 show some yellow, and 6/7 show some blue.

Marbles

In order for the number of marbles, and each of the fractions, to be integers, the number of marbles must be a multiple of 3, 4, and 7. The smallest such multiple is 84. The largest that is less than 250 is 2·84 = 168.

Assuming Mia has 168 marbles, the number showing some blue is ...

168 · 6/7 = 144

144 of Mia's marbles show some blue.

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Additional comment

The ratios of colors showing must be ...

red : yellow : blue = 56 : 63 : 72

of a group of 84 marbles. Above, we have assumed there are two such groups.

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