Marble Collecting Contest

Difficulty: Medium

Sally, Sue, and 4 of their friends decided to have a contest to see who can score the highest. They had a marble-collecting contest. Yellow marbles are worth 1 point, red marbles are worth 2 points, and blue marbles are worth 3 points. Can you figure out how many points the girls scored?

Hint: y + 2r + 3b = the score of the player

y = # of yellow marbles, r = # of red marbles, b = # of blue marbles.

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