SOLUTION: Hi angie had some red and blue beads.40percent of her beads were red. When she lost 50 blue beads,the number of blue beads was reduced by one third its original number of beads

Question 1101286: Hi
angie had some red and blue beads.40percent of her beads were red. When she lost 50 blue beads,the number of blue beads was reduced by one third its original number of beads
how many beads did she have at the end.
Thanks
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = original number of beads total
= original number of blue beads
= original number of red beads
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Next, she had:
blue beads

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At the end, after losing 50 blue beads,
she had beads
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check:
At beginning:
blue beads
red beads
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She lost 50 blue beads, giving her
blue beads at the end
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Definitely get a 2nd opinion on this.
I could easily have misread it.
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