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ASAP! Due tomorrow! 25 points! Read the word problem. Write an equation to represent the word problem. Solve the equation. During the Christmas break, Joe collected two times a number of tadpoles plus two. His sister gave him the product of three and a number of tadpoles. Joe has 10 tadpoles left. What is the number of tadpoles?

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What you gotta take from this problem:

What Joe got during break =
2t+2

What his sister gave him =
3t

What he has total = 10 tadpoles.


Now to assemble this equation:


2t+2+3t=10

Now combine like terms to get
5t+2=10

Subtract 2 on each side of the equation to get
5t=8

Now you would divide 5 on each side and get
t=1.6 , however since you can't have a .6 of a tadpole, you would have to round it up to 2.
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