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Problem solving:
Car sales

A garage sells 3 different colours of car in either a standard model or a sports model. In July, the
numbers of cars of each type and colour that were sold were recorded.
The information is shown below.

Sold in July:

23 standard model cars

27 silver and blue cars altogether
4 blue standard cars
10 silver standard cars
7 each of red sports cars and silver sports cars

a) How many of the most popular colour car were sold?

b) How many of the blue sports cars were sold?

c) How many cars were sold in total in July?

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