During a school food drive, your class collects 137 nonperishable food items. a. How many total items are collected Tuesday through Friday if you know

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2021-02-13

During a school food drive, your class collects 137 nonperishable food items. a. How many total items are collected Tuesday through Friday if you know there are 42 -items collected on Monday? b. Twenty- -nune items are collected on Wednesday, and the number of items collected on each of the remaining thre days is the same. How many items are collected on Thursday?

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Macsen Nixon

Macsen Nixon

Skilled2021-02-14Added 117 answers

Let x be the number of items on Tuesday through Friday (4 days) so that: 42+x=137
Subtract 42 from both sides: x=95
So, 95 items were collected on Tuesday through Friday.
b.Let y be the number of items collected in Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Since 95 items were collected on Tuesday through Friday, we can write:
y+29+y+y=95
3y+29=95
Subtract 29 from both sides: 3y=66
Divide both sides by 3: y=22
So, 22 items were collected on Thursday.
Jeffrey Jordon

Jeffrey Jordon

Expert2021-10-10Added 2605 answers

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