Expressions and Equations

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Last year, three 6th grade students, Mary, Jane, and Sue, were selling balloons at the school's winter dance to collect money for a class trip to mexico. Mary sold two more balloons than Jane, and Sue sold twice as many balloons as Jane. Let b represent the total number of balloons Jane sold. If each balloon cost $2 and altogether they made $900 write and equation to represent the total sale.

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