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Each marble bag sold by Carmen's Marble Company contains 3 purple marbles for every 4 blue marbles. If a bag has 28 blue marbles, how many purple marbles does it contain?

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Answer:

21 purple marbles

Explanation:

my explanation is i looked at it like a ratio so ¾= x/28

then i took 28 ÷ 4 which equals 7, then i took 7 and multiplied it by 3 which gave me 21, so the answer is 21 purple marbles

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