Asked by Destinee

Q. As a project,the fifth grade students at Scott Elementary School collected newspapers to recycle. During the first week,they collected 212 pounds of newspapers. For each of the next four weeks,they doubled the previous week's amount of newspaper collected. What 6th was the total number of pounds of newspapers collected during the five weeks?


A. 212 X 4 = 848 X 5 = 4,240
That was the total number of pounds collected,am I right?
Answered by PsyDAG
Online, “*” is used to indicate multiplication to avoid confusion with “x” as an unknown.

212 + 212*2 + 212*4 + 212*8 + 212*16 = ?

212 + 424 + 848 + 1696 + 3392 = ?
Answered by Destinee
Ohh can u help me though
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