John buys 3 puzzles. The first puzzle has 1000 pieces. The second and third puzzles have the same number of pieces and each has 50% more pieces. How many total pieces are all the puzzles? Give me reasons, before answering the question
The second puzzle has 1000 * .5 = 500 more pieces than the first. So it has 1000 + 500 = 1500 total pieces. That means those two puzzles have 1500 * 2 = 3000 pieces. So in total there were 3000 + 1000 = 4000 pieces. So the final answer is 4000.