document.write( "Question 1206870: There were 5/7 as many red marbles as blue marbles in a jar. Dave took some blue marbles out of the jar and replaced them with the same number of red marbles. The number of red marbles became 5/9 of all the marbles in the jar. Which of the following is a possible number of blue marbles that were replaced? \n" ); document.write( "
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B blue marbles at first
\n" ); document.write( "\"5B%2F7\" red marbles at first\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x blue marbles removed and replaced with red marbles.
\n" ); document.write( "\"B-x\" blue marbles
\n" ); document.write( "\"5B%2F7%2Bx\" red marbles\r
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\n" ); document.write( " red marbles became 5/9 of all the marbles in the jar.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Two equations can be made.
\n" ); document.write( "\"B%2B5B%2F7=%28B-x%29%2B%285B%2F7%2Bx%29\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"5B%2F7%2Bx=%285%2F9%29%28B%2B5B%2F7%29\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"12B%2F7=12B%2F7\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"45B%2F7%2B9x=5%2812B%2F7%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"45B%2B63x=35%2A12B\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"63x=35%2A12B\"
\n" ); document.write( "7*9x=7*5*12B
\n" ); document.write( "\"9x=60B\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"3x=20B\"
\n" ); document.write( "Maybe something was missed. Did you have choices to pick from?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x and B must both be Natural numbers. See from the \"3x=20B\", B could be 3, and then x would be 20.
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