On average each class would collect 97.5 newspaper.
If you meant what is collect in past tense, It is collected.
The verb forms are collect, collects, collected, and collecting.
The past perfect tense is had collected.
The simple past is collected.
The past tense of collect is collected.
collect
pack - packed; collect - collected
The suffix of "collect" is "-ed" when forming the past tense "collected."
Collect is present tense.
she collected things from the wilderness
Present perfect is formed with --- have/has + past participle.Because collect is a regular verb the past participle is verb + -ed = collected.So present perfect is have collected or has collected egHe has collected his pay.They have collected the rubbish early today.
It depends how you use it in a sentence.