AMC 8 Question

Jamal has a drawer containing 6 green socks, purple socks, and 12 orange socks. After adding more purple socks, Jamal noticed that there is now a 60% chance that a sock randomly selected from the drawer is purple. How many purple socks did Jamal add?

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