Question

Greg's youth group is collecting blankets to take to the animal shelter. There are 38 people in the group, and they each gave 2 blankets. They got an additional 29 by asking door-to-door. They set up boxes at schools and got another 52. Greg works out that they have collected a total of 121 blankets. Does that sound about right?

Answer 1

We want to know the total of blankets that Greg's collected.

As there are 38 people in the group, and they each gave 2 blankets, they brough a total of 79 blankets.

As they got 29 asking door-to-door, and got another 52, we will sum the values, as shown:

`79+29+52=160`

This means that the Greg group collected a total of 160 blankets, instead of 121, and the Greg statement is false.