A hardware factory that manufactured screws for one entire week.
Every day there were 300 screws manufactured.
On the second day, 14 screws were defective and and had to be thrown away.
Similarly, on the fourth day 7 screws were thrown away, and on the fifth day 26 screws were thrown away.
How many good screws were manufactured that week?
First, we calculate how many screws the factory produces in total in 7 days:
7×300=2100
Now we subtract the number of defective screws that we know the factory discarded on the second day:
2100−14=2086
Now let's count the number of defective screws that we know the factory discarded on the fourth day:
2086−7=2079
Now we record the number of defective screws that we know the factory discarded on the fifth day:
2079−26=2053