Problema Solution
a recycling center pays $0.35 per pound of glass that it receives.If students at Falcon high school want to raise $500 in a glass-recycling project,what is a reasonable number of pounds of glass they must collect?
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Let 'x' represent the pounds of glass.
0.35x = 500
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x = 1,428.57 lbs
The must collect 1,429 pounds of glass.