A young girl pours 23 blue beads and 16 yellow beads into a bowl. She divides the total into 3 equal parts, removes some beads from each part, and doubles the rest to have 6 beads in each part now. How many beads were removed from each part?
There are 23+16=<<23+16=39>>39 beads in the bowl
Dividing them into 3 equal parts give 39/3=<<39/3=13>>13 beads each
Before doubling the number of beads, she had 6/2=<<6/2=3>>3 beads left in each part.
Therefore she had removed 13-3=<<13-3=10>>10 beads from each part.
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