ABSTRACT

The eighth grade students at Washington Middle School are trying to raise money to help pay for a class trip. There are 250 students in the class, and they want to raise $2 0 0 0 . 0 0 by recy­ cling newspapers, cans, and glass and plastic bottles. Using the table below, calculate how many pounds of newspaper, cans, and bottles (or different combinations of these) students will have to collect to raise the money.