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A bag contains sixty marbles. Adam takes 18 of them. 5 The rest are shared equally between Oscar Priya and Daisy. How many marbles does Daisy get?

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A bag contains sixty marbles. Adam takes 18 of them. 5 The rest are shared equally between Oscar Priya and Daisy. How many marbles does Daisy get?

A bag contains sixty marbles. Adam takes 18 of them. 5 The rest are shared equally between Oscar Priya and Daisy. How many marbles does Daisy get?

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Now I'll do the calculations. <br /><br />In our first step, we have <br />60 marbles subtracted by 18 gives us<br /><br /> \(Total\: Marbles = 60-18 = 42\) marbles: the number of left Marbles after Adam ballets are 42 marbles. <br /><br />Now let's use the second formula to find out how many marbles each player will get, <br /><br />Substitute the value for the total Marbles into the marbles formula gives us <br /><br />\( Marbles\:each = \frac{42}{3}= 14. \)<br /><br />Daisy gets exactly 14 marbles. Indeed, every one of Daisy, Oscar and Priya gets the same amount of 14 marbles.

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## Step1: <br />First, we need to find out how many marbles remained after Adam took 18 marbles from the bag. This can be calculated by subtracting the number of marbles taken '18' from the total number of marbles '60';<br /><br /> ### \(Total\: Marbles = 60-18\)<br /><br /> ## Step2: <br />Next, we distribute the remaining marbles equally among Oscar, Priya and Daisy. To do this, we divide the (answer from Step 1) by 3 since there are 3 people receiving the marbles.<br /><br /> ### \(Marbles\:each = \frac{Total Marbles}{3}\)
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