Question

The goal of a benefit concert is to collect 50,000 cans of food. Food is collected at each entrance to the concert. Entrance A, 15,682 cans, Entrance B, 18,940 cans, Entrance C, 16,114 cans, Entrance D, 12,468 cans. Did they collect more or fewer cans than desired? How many more or fewer?

Answer 1

Answer: Here you need to add the total cans that they collected in each entrance; it is 15682 cans + 18940 cans + 16115 cans + 12468 cans = 63205 total cans collected.

So at the end they collected more cans than desired, they wanted 50000 and got 63205, so if you do a difference, 63205 - 50000 = 13205

We can see that they collected 13205 more cans than desired.

Answer 2

In order to do this you add 15,682+18,940+16,114+12,468= 63,234
And that is larger than 50,000 so it is more.
63,324-50,000= 13,234
~JZ
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