There are white, blue, and red boats in a marina. Two-thirds of the boats in the marina are white, 4 7 of the remaining boats are blue, and the rest are red. If there are 15 red boats, how many boats are in the marina?

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Answer: the number of boats that are in the marina is 105.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of boats that are in the marina.

Two-thirds of the boats in the marina are white. It means that the number of white boats in the marina is

2/3 × x = 2x/3

The remaining number of boats will be

x - 2x/3 = x/3

4/7 of the remaining boats are blue. It means that the number of boats that are blue is

4/7 × x/3 = 4x/21

The number of boats left would be

x/3 - 4x/21 = 3x/21

If there are 15 red boats, it means that

3x/21 = 15

3x = 21 × 15 = 315

x = 315/3

x = 105