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Jonathan is rotten at playing marbles and almost always loses to his sister Eunice, who never gives back the marbles Jonathan loses to her. Jonathan heard about a sale of marbles where shooters are 5¢ each red marbles are 3¢ each, and multicolored marbles are 5 for a penny He has a dollar to spend and has decided to buy 100 marbles so How many of each kind of marble can he buy? Hint There is more than one answer to this problem)​

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Answer: He can buy 12 shooters with $1. 20 red marbles with $1. 300 multicolored marbles.

Explanation:

Shooters = 1 dollar is 60 cents

60 divided by 5 = 12

Red = 60 divided by 3

= 20

Multicolored = 60 x 5 because 1 for 5

= 300

P.S Not sure if my answer is correct.....

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