The table shows the amounts of food collected by two homerooms. Homeroom A collects 21 additional items of food. How many more items does Homeroom B need to collect to have more items per student Homeroom A Homeroom B

Students 24 16
Canned Food 30 22
Dry Food 42 24

Respuesta :

Let x be additional food item the homeroom B should collect  to have greater item per student than homeroom A.

(22 +24 + x) / 16 > (30 + 42 + 21) /24

(22 +24 + x) > 3.875 (16)

X > 16

So they should collect more than 16 food item to have a greater item per student

Answer:

17

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