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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.