Homework Help: arithmetic

Posted by Yorgelys on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 10:47pm.

If a blue box has 5 times as many marbles as a red box and the blue box has 24 more marbles than the red box how many marbles are in each box?

arithmetic - PsyDAG, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 4:33am
If the number of marbles in the red box are x, then those in the blue box would be 5x.

5x - x = 24

Solve for x, then 5 x.

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