Question

For a community recycling project, a school collects plastic containers. This year the fourth grade collected 4,182 containers. This is 24 more containers than the fourth grade collected last year. How many containers did the fourth grade collect last year?

Answer 1

To find out how many containers the fourth grade collected last year, subtract 24 from the total number of containers collected this year.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many containers the fourth grade collected last year, we need to subtract 24 from the total number of containers collected this year. The fourth grade collected 4,182 containers this year, which is 24 more than last year. So, to find out how many containers were collected last year, we subtract 24 from 4,182.

4,182 - 24 = 4,158.

Therefore, the fourth grade collected 4,158 containers last year.