SOLUTION: There are 10,000 trees in a forest. In this forest there are twice as many spruce trees as there are pine trees. Sixty-four hundred trees are neither spruce nor pine. How many spru

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Question 1145723: There are 10,000 trees in a forest. In this forest there are twice as many spruce trees as there are pine trees. Sixty-four hundred trees are neither spruce nor pine. How many spruce trees are there?
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%28%2810000-6400%29%2F3%29%2A2 = 2400.    ANSWER



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