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I edited the comment you are replying to to answer more of the questions.
You would want the partitions you mentioned as well as a grub bootloader partition.
Oh I see now. So I don't have much of a need for storage on my device. If I have anything important to save, I just use my cloud drive. Also I was under the impression from another poster that I don't need to make a bootloader partition because the installer will automatically do that for me, idk what is correct? if that's the case, then just mount the second and third distros to that first bootloader plus swap and I should be fine?
You need to make sure there's enough space for your installers to make a grub partition, but yes, if there's enough space, they will make the partitions themselves. You just need to tell them how big you want the partitions to be.
Awesome! I think somebody said 50-60gb should be fine per distro? do agree?
Yep, that should be fine.