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Then Margarit must have failed math. If 3 pencil sharpeners (3X) plus 2g equal 101g, lets start by subtracting 2 from both- that leaves 3x=99. 99 divided by 3=33, so x is 33 grams- not 30.

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Q: Margarit balanced 3 pencil sharpeners and 2 one-gram blocks with a 100-gram weight and another one-gram block She let x stand for the weight of one pencil sharpener and she claimed that x equals 30-g?
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