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Mark, Paul and Brian share some sweets in the ratio 4:1:3. Mark gets 9 more sweets than Brian. How man sweets does Paul get?

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Since we need to make sure that 4 and 3 are multiplied by the same amount and they answer would need to be 9 numbers apart. We can figure out that they would both be multiplied by 9 and Mark would get 36 and Brian would get 27. So that means that Paul would get 9.

The answer is 9.
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