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The 20 balls in a box as shown above have either 0 (blank),
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document.write( "There are no balls with 3 letters.  Since the 5+2+2 = 9 balls \r\n" );
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document.write( "letters, the other 20-9=11 balls could all be blank.  So the \r\n" );
document.write( "answer is 11.\r\n" );
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