Homework Help: Math

Posted by Anaiya on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 7:10pm.

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?

Math - PsyDAG, Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 12:58pm
3x + 2 = 101

Solve for x to answer your question.

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