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In a professional development workshop on visual mathematics, blue counters represent positive integers and red counters represent negative integers. To model the expression $5(-3)$—interpreted as 'taking away five, three times'—the instructor must first populate the workspace with fifteen ____ to allow for the removal of blue counters while keeping the initial total at zero.

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