Leslie weighs her marbles in a jar, and the scale reads 474 grams. The empty jar weighs 439 grams. Each marble weighs 5 grams. How many marbles are in the jar?

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Shwetank Mauria
Jul 23, 2016

There are #7# marbles in the jar.

Explanation:

As the jar with marbles weighed #474# grams and empty jar had a weight of only #439# grams,

Marbles weighed #474-439=35# grams.

Now as each marble weighed #5# grams, number of marbles in jar would be #35/5=7#.

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