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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2015

Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

My fruit basket contains apples and oranges. The ratio of apples to oranges in the basket is $3:8$ . When I remove one apple the ratio changes to $1:3$ . How many oranges are in the basket?

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