Question

as a project , the fifth grade students at scott Elementary school collected newspapers to recycle.During the first week, the collected212 pounds of newspapers .For each if the next week if the next few weeks , they doubled the previous week 's amount of newspapers collected. What was the total nunber if pounds of newspapers collected during the five weeks

Answer 1

212×2=424 second week
424×2=848 third week
848×2=1,696 fourth week
1,696×2=3,396 fifth week
3,396 pounds of newspapers total