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A recycling center pays $0.35 per pound of glass that it receives. If students at Falcon High School want to raise $500 in a glass-recycling project, what is a reasonable number of pounds of glass they must collect?

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0.35*1430=500.5, anywhere up from 1,430 pounds will equate to over 500$
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