standard_description: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
problem_activity: Task
John, Marie, and Will all ran for 6th grade class president. Of the 36 students voting, the ratio of votes for John to votes for Will was two to one. Marie got exactly the average number of votes for the three of them. How many more votes did John get than Marie?


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