Question

A bag is filled with green and blue marbles. There are 68 marbles in the bag. If there are 40 more green marbles that blue marbles, find the number of green marbles and the number of blue marbles in the bag.

Answer 1

There are 40 green marbles and 28 blue marbles.

Explanation:

There are 68 marbles in the bag. At LEAST 40 are green, therefore 68-40=28. So we have 28 blue marbles