Three vases each contain 12 flowers. Some flowers are to be removed from one vase and placed in another vase to make the ratio of flowers in the three vases 3:2:1. What is the least number of flowers that must moved to accomplish this?

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snowflake0531 · Answer

12 flowers
1:2:3
This means that the middle vase has 4 flowers....
and the other two have 2 and 6
So, we have 2, 4, 6
Which means that compared to the 4, 2 flowers were moved

snowflake0531 · Answer

Oh, shoot, it says each vase has 12, not in all

snowflake0531 · Answer

That means there are 36 in all, with 12 as one, and 18 and 6 as the other ones
6, 12, 18
So, 6 were moved