Question

Help me! a food manufactorer donates moneys to schools based on the number of its product labels the school collects. The students at one school collected 2,100 product labels in 3 months. the number of labels collected in the first 2 months was 3 times the number of labells collected in the third month. How many product labels were collected in the third month?
number in 3rd month ---- x
number in first 2 months = 3x

x + 3x = 2100

carry on
do my answer would be 700?
Ms. Sue
No.

how would i do this in aeasier way

Ms. Sue
What is x + 3x?

4x
Ms. Sue
Right.

4x = 2100

x = ?

525
Ms. Sue
Yes, 525.

ty Ms Sue
Ms. Sue
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