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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Please help I WILL GIVE AWAY A MEDAL!!!!! Yves bought 420 tropical fish for a museum display. He bought 6 times as many parrotfish as angelfish. How many of each type of fish did he buy? Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents the number of angelfish Yves bought, and y represents the number of parrotfish he bought?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

total fish= 420= x + y parrot fish y = 6 times angel fish = 6 x

OpenStudy (anonymous):

by any chance can you explain it a little bit better

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