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A high school is having a can food drive.


▪️ The freshman class collected 54 more cans than the sophomore class.


▪️ The junior class collected three times the number of cans collected by the sophomore class.


▪️ The senior class collected ten cans less than the sophomore class.


Write an algebraic expression in one variable to model the total number of cans collected at the school.


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sqdancefan

Answer:

  6s+44

Step-by-step explanation:

You want an algebraic expression for the number of cans collected in a food drive when ...

  • freshmen collected 54 more cans than sophomores
  • juniors collecte 3 times as many cans as sophomores
  • seniors collected 10 fewer cans than sophomores

Expression

Let s represent the number of cans collected by sophomores.

  • Freshmen collected (s+54) cans.
  • Juniors collected (3s) cans.
  • Seniors collected (s-10) cans.

The total collected was ...

  (s +54) + (s) + (3s) + (s -10) = 6s +44

The total number of cans collected at the school was 6s +44.

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