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Marbles ratio word problem

1000BeginnerAlgebra

18th PMO Area Stage

Marc and Jon together have $66$ marbles although Marc has twice as many marbles as Jon. Incidentally, Jon found a bag of marbles which enabled him to have three times as many marbles as Mark. How many marbles were in the bag that Jon found?
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