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 = ?