SOLUTION: Eric has a bag of 58 balls saome are red and the rest are white. he removes some of the balls from te bag and notices that he removed 6 times more white bal;ls than red .he observe

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Question 1162636: Eric has a bag of 58 balls saome are red and the rest are white. he removes some of the balls from te bag and notices that he removed 6 times more white bal;ls than red .he observes that of the ball remining in the bag, there are 5 times more red balls then white .how many balls doid he remove from the bag and how many were red?
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In English,  this passage  "6 times more white balls than red"  is a classic ambiguity - - - and therefore is  DANGEROUS.


Avoid using such passages in your Math posts and in your Math problems.