How many marbles

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Sophie has three boxes of marbles.

  • The red box has 3 times as many marbles as the blue box.

  • The green box has 12 fewer marbles than the red box.

  • Altogether, there are 96 marbles in the three boxes.

How many marbles are in each box?

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