document.write( "Question 868716: I cannot help my daughter on this- I thought I had the answer, but I think I'm wrong. Here's the problem:
\n" ); document.write( "Pocahontas Middle school had a canned food drive. This year, the school collected 125 less than half the cans collected last year. The school collected 745 cans between the two years. How many cans were collected each year?\r
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document.write( "x = the number of cans collected last year.\r\n" );
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document.write( "x-125 = the number of cans collected this year\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the equation comes from:\r\n" );
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document.write( " x + x-125 = 745\r\n" );
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document.write( "1x + x-125 = 745\r\n" );
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document.write( "   x-125 = 745\r\n" );
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document.write( "         x = 870\r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply both sides by 2\r\n" );
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document.write( "                 3x = 1740\r\n" );
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document.write( "Divide both sides by 3\r\n" );
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document.write( "                  x = 580\r\n" );
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document.write( "x = 580 = the number of cans collected last year.\r\n" );
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document.write( "x-125 = (580)-125 = 290-125 = 165 = the number of cans\r\n" );
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document.write( "collected this year\r\n" );
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