Question

In her college English class Marta wrote a total of 15,000 words in essays three of martas essays were 1,000 words long and the rest were 2,000 words long. How many 2,000 word essays did she write

Answer 1

Martha wrote 6 2,000-word essays.

Explanation:

15,000 (words total) - 3,000 (3 1,000-word essays) = 12,000 (words left for the 2,000-word essays).

Since the rest of the essays were 2,000 words, we can divide 12,000 by 2,000 to get 6.