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Twenty-five blue and twenty-five yellow marbles are placed in a jar. Some thirty-four marbles are removed from the jar and put in a second jar. What is the positive difference between the number of blue marbles in the second jar and the number of yellow marbles remaining in the first jar? Plz Help

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Let b represent the number of blue marbles placed in the second jar. Then 34-b is the number of yellow marbles in the second jar, and 25 - (34-b) is the number of yellow marbles remaining in the first jar. That value simplifies to b-9. The positive difference between b and (b-9) is 9. 

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