SOLUTION: Eric has a bag of 58 balls saome are red and the rest are white. he removes some of the balls from te bag and notices that he removed 6 times more white bal;ls than red .he observe

Question 1162636: Eric has a bag of 58 balls saome are red and the rest are white. he removes some of the balls from te bag and notices that he removed 6 times more white bal;ls than red .he observes that of the ball remining in the bag, there are 5 times more red balls then white .how many balls doid he remove from the bag and how many were red?
Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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