You have three colors of candies a jar - yellow, red and blue. There are 4 times plus 3 as many yellow candies as there are blue candies. There is 5/8 as many minus 6 red candies as there are blue. There are a total of 402 candies in the jar. How many of yellow, blue and red candies are there?
A) y-290, b-73, r-39
B) y-291, b-73, r-38
C) y-291, b-72, r-39
D) y-292, b-72, r-38
E) y-292, b-72, r-37

Question

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Let B be the number of blue candies.
Then the number of yellow candies is 4B+3,
and the number of red candies is (5/8)B-6.

The total number of candies is B + 4B+3 + (5/8)B-6 = 402.

Simplifying the equation, we get:
(21/8)B = 405
B = 72

Therefore, the number of yellow candies is 4B+3 = 291
and the number of red candies is (5/8)B-6 = 39.

Thus, the answer is C: y-291, b-72, r-39.

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