Help me! a food manufactorer donates moneys to schools based on the number of its product labels the school collects. The students at one school collected 2,100 product labels in 3 months. the number of labels collected in the first 2 months was 3 times the number of labells collected in the third month. How many product labels were collected in the third month?

number in 3rd month ---- x

number in first 2 months = 3x

x + 3x = 2100

carry on

do my answer would be 700?

No.

how would i do this in aeasier way

What is x + 3x?

4x

Right.

4x = 2100

x = ?

525

Yes, 525.

ty Ms Sue