Trinity and Peyton were collecting box tops for their class. Trinity collected 36 box tops. Peyton collected 1 ½ times as many. How many cans did they collect all together?

Note: We need to find the number of total box tops instated of total number of cans.

Given:

Trinity collected 36 box tops.

Peyton collected times as many as Trinity.

To find:

The number of box tops they did collect all together.

Solution:

It is given that,

Number of box tops collected by Trinity = 36

Number of box tops collected by Peyton =

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                                                                    =

Total =

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Therefore, the total number of box tops collect all together is 90.

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,