A jar contains 100 glass beads, of which 56 are pink and 44 are blue. If 24 beads are removed from the jar, how many of the beads remaining are blue? (1) After the 24 beads are removed, the number of pink beads remaining in the bag equals the number of blue beads remaining in the bag. (2) Of the beads removed, the ratio of the number of pink beads to the number of blue beads is 3 to 1.

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A jar contains 100 glass beads, of which 56 are pink and 44 are blue. If 24 beads are removed from the jar, how many of the beads remaining are blue? (1) After the 24 beads are removed, the number of pink beads remaining in the bag equals the number of blue beads remaining in the bag. (2) Of the beads removed, the ratio of the number of pink beads to the number of blue beads is 3 to 1.






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