SOLUTION: A paper mill produces 350 tones of paper from sawdust each week. if 50 tons more are used for newspaper than for wrapping paper, how many tons are used for each?

Question 23783: A paper mill produces 350 tones of paper from sawdust each week. if 50 tons more are used for newspaper than for wrapping paper, how many tons are used for each?
Answer by music974(43) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
what u first do is let w be wrapping paper. Then newspaper would be w+50. The equation would be w+(w+50)=350. Then it becomes 2w+50=350. subract 50 from both sides to get 2w=300. Then divide each side by 2 to get w=150. So newspaper uses 200 tons and wrapping paper uses 150 tons.
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