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Bob bought 40 gumboils from a quarter machine. The number of each flavor he got is shown in the table. If there are 140 gumboils remaining in the machine. what is a reasonable prediction for the number of cola flavored gumboils left?

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Answer: Is only definable if you can show the table but according to a valid explanation it would be most likely 41

Explanation:

Lets say Bob has 17 strawberry, 19 Cola, and 4 blueberry, we can infer there is an equal amount of gumballs of each flavor in the machine; Before bob bought any gumballs there were 180 and if there were only 3 flavors we would divide 180 by 3 and get 60. That means each flavor has 60 of its own flavor and if we take 19 from the 60 cola flavored we can get 41.

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