Question

Salina was at a party and she noticed that the room had 54 balloons. For every red balloon there were 2 yellow balloons and 3 blue balloons.

How many blue balloons were there?

Answer 1

how do i figure this when it doesnt tell me how many red balloons there are

Answer 2

your answer is A

Answer 3

well for starters we know that there are 54 balloons

Answer 4

ok now as you said we dont know how many red balloons we have so lets say we have x red balloons

Answer 5

and that the answer is A:)

Answer 6

Now for every 1 red balloon we have 2 yellow balloons so if we have 2 red balloons we will have 2*2=4 yellow balloons. So basically there are twice the amount of red ballons
yellow balloons =2x

Answer 7

kelly stop texting stupid stuff that doesnt make sense

Answer 8

Now for every red balloon there are 3 blue balloons
blue balloons=3x
Now in total we will have x+2x+3x=54

Answer 9

Now can you solve for x to find out how many red balloons there are

Answer 10

so what did you get for x?

Answer 11

ok one sec

Answer 12

x=9 right

Answer 13

yup now we know that there are 9 red balloons

Answer 14

so how many blue balloons would there be?

Answer 15

27 :):):)

Answer 16

YAHHHOOOOOOOOO

Answer 17

At an amusement park, each premium ride costs $12 and each gold star ride is $8. Stan spends $96 on tickets and he gets 3 more premium rides than gold star rides.

How much does he spend on gold star rides?

Answer 18

Lets see what @robtobey has to say. Maybe i did something incorrectly

Answer 19

27 blue balloons.
There are 54/6=9 groups of red/yellow/blue balloons and in every balloon group there are 3 blue balloons. 9*3=27

Answer 20

ohhh yay we got the correct answer

Answer 21

i got 24$

Answer 22

on the last question i just asked can someone make sure i did that right please

Answer 23

At an amusement park, each premium ride costs $12 and each gold star ride is $8. Stan spends $96 on tickets and he gets 3 more premium rides than gold star rides.

How much does he spend on gold star rides?

Answer 24

$24

Answer 25

??????

Answer 26

yes I am here

Answer 27

Ok lets set up our equation first

Answer 28

ok so we purchase $96 worth of tickets
we buy x amount of gold tickets
and x+3 premium tickets ok

Answer 29

now how would you set up our equation?

Answer 30

did i lose you?

Answer 31

no i just already figured out that i was right

Answer 32

lol

Answer 33

yes you are correct sorryyyyyy

Answer 34

I thought premium rides hahahahaahah

Answer 35

ok so you got it :) U R AWESOME

Answer 36

Let gsr be the number of gold start rides that Stan bought.
Solve the following for gsr:
12 (gsr + 3) + 8 gsr = 96
gsr = 3
8*3 = $24

Answer 37

Miguel is making smoothies out of yogurt and juice to serve to his friends, and he needs to make 12 cups. The ratio of yogurt to juice is 2 cups to 1 cup.

How much yogurt will he use?

Answer 38

ok so lets label juice as x
and so for every cup of juice we have 2 cups of yogurt
Yogurt=2x
How would we set up our equation?

Answer 39

2 times 12 right but the only thing about that is that these are the choices i have for the answer 3,4,8,9

Answer 40

x+2x=12
3x=12
x=4
So he uses 4 glasses of juice
Yogurt is 2x=2*4=8
So he will use 8 cups of yogurt

Answer 41

oh ok that makes more sense than what i tried doing lol

Answer 42

lol

Answer 43

Latonya bought flowers for her mother. She spent $45. Each tulip was $1 and each rose was $2. She bought 3 more tulips than roses.

Let t be the number of tulips. Which algebraic sentence would help you figure out how many tulips Latonya bought?

Answer 44

A. t + 2(t + 3) = 45
B. t + 2(t – 3) = 45
C. 2t (t + 3) = 45
D. -3t + 2t = 45

Answer 45

Ok lets skip the algebraic sentence first and try to set up the equation

Answer 46

ohh they provided that answer

Answer 47

ok so you tell me.

Answer 48

one sec let me try to figure that out haha in my HEAD lol

Answer 49

ok there is something tricky here. Should I give you a hint

Answer 50

YES PLEASe

Answer 51

i think it would either be A or C is that correct at least?

Answer 52

ok t=tulips
we have 3 more tulips than roses
Now that is another way of saying that we have 3 less roses than tulips

Answer 53

Sorry thats incorrect :(

Answer 54

ok lets work through it together

Answer 55

ok we have t amount of tulips
and how many roses do we hav

Answer 56

2?

Answer 57

well they cost $2 per rose

Answer 58

but how many roses do we have in comparison to tulips

Answer 59

if we have t tulips then how many roses do we have
Do we have more roses than tulips
Or less roses than tulip

Answer 60

She bought 3 more tulips than roses.
meaning that we have more tulips than roses correct?

Answer 61

if we have t amount of tulips we have 3 less roses

Answer 62

$28 on roses and $17 on tulips right

Answer 63

A. t + 2(t + 3) = 45
B. t + 2(t – 3) = 45
C. 2t (t + 3) = 45
D. -3t + 2t = 45
i still think the answer is either a or c but do those make sense

Answer 64

Ok you got the correct answer so what was your equation

Answer 65

How did you get your answer?

Answer 66

i didnt write down any equation but since i am adding so many ts more than roses i did the t+3 obviously and i would assume t+3 at the beginning because its a dollar plus two one for the tulip and two for the rose so the equations just look like a or c could work for solving it am i right?

Answer 67

ok let me show what I did
We have t tulips
and t-3 roses

Answer 68

i added 3 together until i got to 42 and then added just the three tulips to get 45

Answer 69

Since we have 3 roses less than tulips

Answer 70

so we have t+2(t-3)=45
and since we have 17 tulips plug in t=17 and you will see you will get the correct answer

Answer 71

so our answer is B

Answer 72

this one was confusing
We had t tulips
and we didnt have more tulips than roses
but we had 3 less roses than tulips
Roses=t-3

Answer 73

A little late for the yogurt/juice problem.
Let y and j be then number of cups of yogurt and juice, respectively, to make 12 cups of smoothies.
Solve the following for y and j. The dimensions for the first equation is cups and the second equation is dimensionless, a pure ratio.\[\left\{y+j=12,\frac{y}{j}=2\right\}\]\[\{y=8 \text{ cups},j=4 \text{ cups}\} \]

Answer 74

oh ok so thats where i got confused lol i was assuming it was +3 but -3 makes more sense

Answer 75

lol it was a little tricky

Answer 76

thankss for everything LATER ;]

Answer 77

Bye :)