Margarit liked to balance things. She balanced 3 pencil sharpeners and 2 one-gram blocks with a 100 gram weight and another one-gram block. She let x stand for the weight of one pencil sharpener and she claimed that x=30 grams. Was she correct?

Answer 1

3x + 2 = 101

Solve for x to answer your question.

Answer 2

30