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A group of students collect a number of shells on the beach. They sort the shells into three piles based on the size of each shell. Pile 1 has half as many shells as the total amount they collected. Pile 2 has 10 fewer shells than the first pile. Pile 3 has the remaining shells. Write an expression that represents the number of shells in Pile 2.

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Answer:

Three piles

Let No. of shells =S

pile1=0.5 S

pile2=0.5S-10

pile 3=10

The required expression is [tex]y=x-10[/tex]

Computation:

Let us that,

The number of shells in pile 1 be[tex]'x'[/tex]

The number of shells in pile 2 be [tex]'y'[/tex]

The number of shells in pile 3 be [tex]'z'[/tex]

Now,

The number of shells in pile 2 is 10 fewer than the number of shells in pile 1.

So, the expression is, [tex]y = x - 10[/tex]

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