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Alice, Betty, and Carol are playing a game with 48 marbles, taking turns in specified amounts. After initial draws, one girl takes the same amount as before, another takes double, and the last takes quadruple her original amount, resulting in 10 marbles remaining. The challenge is to determine which girl took the same amount as her first turn.
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Alice,Betty, and Carol are playing a game with 48 marbles in a circl.docx
- 1. Alice,Betty, and Carol are playing a game with 48 marbles in a circle. Alice takes 2 marbles. Betty takes 4 marbles and Carol takes 6 marbles. One of them (not saying which one) now takes as many marbles as she did the first time. Another girl takes twice as many as she had before and the remaining girl takes 4 times as many as before. There are now 10 marbles left in the circle. Which girl took the same amount as the first time?