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In a box of marbles, there are three less white marbles than the red ones and five more white marbles than the green ones. If there are a total of 10 white marbles, how many marbles are there in the box?

The correct answer is

28

Box contains marbles where red, white and green marbles. There are 3 less white marbles as compared to red marble, so we see that there are 13 red marbles in the box. There are 5 more white marbles as compared to green marble, so it is concluded that box contains 5 green marbles. Total number of white marbles is 10 Total number of marbles in the box will be addition of all the three which is 10+5+13 = 28. Hence we see that option B is correct.

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