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A gold box has 3 times as many beads as a red box. Eric added 9 beads to the gold box and 3 beads to the red box. If there are 2 times as many beads in the gold box as the red box, what was the total number of beads in the two boxes before Eric added the beads?
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A gold box has 3 times as many beads as a red box. Eric added 9 beads to the gold box and 3 beads to the red box. If there are 2 times as many beads in the gold box as the red box, what was the total number of beads in the two boxes before Eric added the beads?