Asap! due tomorrow! 25 points! read the word problem. write an equation to represent the word problem. solve the equation. during the christmas break, joe collected two times a number of tadpoles plus two. his sister gave him the product of three and a number of tadpoles. joe has 10 tadpoles left. what is the number of tadpoles?

What you gotta take from this problem:

What Joe got during break = 

What his sister gave him = 

What he has total = 10 tadpoles.

Now to assemble this equation:



Now combine like terms to get 

Subtract 2 on each side of the equation to get 

Now you would divide 5 on each side and get  , however since you can't have a .6 of a tadpole, you would have to round it up to 2.

The answer is 8 apex