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=
<gadget id="calculator">23+16</gadget>
<output>39</output>
39 beads in the bowl.
Dividing them into 3 equal parts give 39/3=
<gadget id="calculator">39/3</gadget>
<output>13</output>
13 beads each.
Before doubling the number of beads, she had 6/2=
<gadget id="calculator">6/2</gadget>
<output>3</output>
3 beads left in each part.
Therefore she had removed 13-3=
<gadget id="calculator">13-3</gadget>
<output>10</output>
10 beads from each part.

<result>10</result>