Given:
• Expected number of cans to collect = 24,000 cans.
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• The food bank collects 100 fewer cans.
Let's find the number of cans it collected.
Since the food bank collected 100 fewer cans, to find the number of cans it collected, let's subtract 100 from the expected goal which is 24000 cans.
Hence, we have:
Number of cans collected = expected goal - 100
Number of cans collected = 24000 - 100 = 23900
Therefore, the number of cans the food bank collected was 23,900 cans.
ANSWER:
23900 cans