Given:
Number of blue marbles, twice as many red marbles as blue, and 8 yellow marbles.
She has a total of 32 marbles.
To find:
The number of red marbles.
Solution:
Let number of blue marbles be x.
Then, number of red marbles = 2x
Number of yellow marbles = 8
Total number of marbles = 32
[tex]x+2x+8=32[/tex]
[tex]3x=32-8[/tex]
[tex]3x=24[/tex]
[tex]x=8[/tex]
Now,
Number of red marbles [tex]=2(8)=16[/tex]
Therefore, there are 16 red marbles.
