document.write( "Question 859047: A basket contains green, black and blue balls in the ratio 5:2:1. If there are 10 blue balls, find the corresponding new ratio when 10 green and 10 black balls are removed from the basket. \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "green, black and blue balls in the ratio 5:2:1
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document.write( "Basket originally contains 8x balls: 5x green, 2x black and x blue
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document.write( "If there are 10 blue balls (x = 10)
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document.write( "Basket originally contains 80 balls: 50 green, 20 black and 10 blue
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document.write( "10 green and 10 black balls are removed
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document.write( "Then
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document.write( "Basket originally contains 60 balls: 40 green, 10 black and 10 blue
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document.write( "and ratio is: 4:1:1 \n" );
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