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There are blue and purple counters in a bag in the ratio 13:17There are 80 more purple counters than blue counters.How many blue counters are there? counters

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There are blue and purple counters in a bag in the ratio 13:17There are 80 more purple counters than blue counters.How many blue counters are there? counters

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  1. The ratio of blue to purple counters is 13:17. This means for every 13 blue counters, there are 17 purple counters.

  2. The difference in the ratio (17-13) is 4 units. According to the problem, this difference corresponds to 80 more purple counters.

  3. Therefore, 1 unit of the ratio corresponds to 80 ÷ 4 = 20 counters.

  4. To find the number of blue counters (which is 13 units), we multiply 13 * 20 = 260.

So, there are 260 blue counters.

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