Will and Thomas are collecting baseball cards. Will already has ten baseball cards and plans to collect 5 cards per month. Thomas has twenty baseball cards and plans to collect 3 cards per month. After how many months will Thomas and Will have the same number of baseball cards?
+256 okay we set up and equation.
10 + 5m is how many cards will gets, where m is months
20 + 3m is how many cards thomas gets, where m is months.
lets see how many months it will take for them to be equal:
10 + 5m = 20+ 3m
5m = 10 +3m
2m = 10
m = 5
it will take 5 months for them to have the same amount of cards.
+256 okay we set up and equation.
10 + 5m is how many cards will gets, where m is months
20 + 3m is how many cards thomas gets, where m is months.
lets see how many months it will take for them to be equal:
10 + 5m = 20+ 3m
5m = 10 +3m
2m = 10
m = 5
it will take 5 months for them to have the same amount of cards.
