Question

Thomas and Jaxon collect aluminum cans from the cafeteria to recycle each week. The first week they collected 34 cans, and the second week they collected 26 cans. They also collected cans the third week and then counted all the cans they collected for the three weeks. If their total for all three weeks was 98 cans, how many cans did they collect the third week?What steps show how to solve the word problem?

Answer 1

Let the aluminum cans collect from the cafeteria to recycle on third week be x

total cans=98

34+28+x=98

62+x=98

x=36

hence,the aluminum cans collect from the cafeteria to recycle on third week is 36