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Emily has a bag which contains only blue and green marbles. She knows that the ratio of green marbles to blue marbles in the bag is 33 to 11 and that the bag contains a total of 6060 marbles. How many of the marbles in the bag are blue?
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Emily has a bag which contains only blue and green marbles.  She knows that the ratio of green marbles to blue marbles in the bag is 3 to 1 and that the bag contains a total of 60 marbles.  How many of the marbles in the bag are blue?
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Emily has a bag which contains only blue and green marbles.  She knows that the ratio of green marbles to blue marbles in the bag is $3$ to $1$ and that the bag contains a total of $60$ marbles.  How many of the marbles in the bag are blue?

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Level 3

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Prealgebra

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