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Each marble bag sold by Henry's Marble Company contains 5 purple marbles for every 4 orange marbles. If a bag has 20 orange marbles, how many purple marbles does it contain?

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Answer:

25

Explanation:

If it's 5 for every 4 and the bag has 20, 4*5 = 20 and you'd have to do that to the 5 as well to get 5*5=25.

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