# Allie collected 15 more cans of food than Peyton. Ling collected 8 more than Allie. Ling collected 72 cans of food. How many cans of food did Allie, Peyton, and Ling collect in all?

Allie collected 15 more cans of food than Peyton. Ling collected 8 more than Allie. Ling collected 72 cans of food. How many cans of food did Allie, Peyton, and Ling collect in all?
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Corben Pittman
Let x be the number of cans of food Peyton collected so that Allie collected x+15 and Ling collected $\left(x+15\right)+8=x+23$ cans of food. Given that Ling collected 72 cans of food, we can write:
$x+23=72$
Solve for xx. Subtract 23 from both sides:
$x=49$
So, Peyton collected 4949 and Allie collected $49+15=6449+15=64$ cans of food. Overall, they collected a total of:
$49+64+72=185$ cans of food
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