Tom has a collection of 30 CDs, and Nita has a collection of 18 CDs. Tom is adding 1 CD per month to his collection, while Nita is adding 5 CDs per month to her collection. After how many months will Tom and Nita have the same number of CDs?

Question

1 month
3 months
2 months*
33 months

Answer 1

Your answer: 2 month
so Tom will have 30 + 2(1) = 32
Nita will have 18 + 2(5) = 28
Your answer is wrong.
Why did you not check to see if you were correct, where you just guessing?

Did you use
30+m = 18+5m ?

Answer 2

I honestly did not understand the question so I came here so thanks for helping me.

Answer 3

So what should have been your correct answer ?

Answer 4

The answer is 3 months

Answer 5

i got 3 months as well but it says i did it wrong.

Answer 6

2months

Answer 7

It's 3 months