SOLUTION: In her rose garden, Mary has half as many white roses as red roses, 4 times as many red ones as pink ones. There are 36 roses that are either yellow or pink. Twenty are yellow. How

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Question 1013007: In her rose garden, Mary has half as many white roses as red roses, 4 times as many red ones as pink ones. There are 36 roses that are either yellow or pink. Twenty are yellow. How many roses are there in Mary's garden?
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36 are yellow or pink
20 are yellow, so 16 are pink.
4 times as many are red, so 64 are red.
Half as many are white, so 32 are white
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20 are yellow
16 are pink
64 are red
32 are white
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20+16+64+32=132
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ANSWER: There are 132 roses in the garden.
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