Write a variable expression using only one variable.
A clothing store has twice as many blue shirts as red shirts, and one-tenth as many yellow shirts as blue shirts.
A. Express the number of each shirt in terms of the number of red shirts r.
B. If the store has twenty red shirts, how many red, blue, and yellow does the store have total?

Question

Write a variable expression using only one variable. 
A clothing store has twice as many blue shirts as red shirts, and one-tenth as many yellow shirts as blue shirts. 
A. Express the number of each shirt in terms of the number of red shirts r.
B. If the store has twenty red shirts, how many red, blue, and yellow does the store have total?

anonymous · Answer

I think it's A. red shirts:r;blue shirts: r2

anonymous · Answer

and b would be????

anonymous · Answer

i think be would be red shirts:r;yellow shirts: r/10???
the store has a total of 4.1 shirts????

dmb1215 · Answer

its between 7 and 6

anonymous · Answer

what is between 7 and 6?? The total amount of shirts??

dmb1215 · Answer

nevermind I forgot about the yellow

dmb1215 · Answer

so twenty red then 40 blue and what is a tenth of 40

anonymous · Answer

that would be 44

dmb1215 · Answer

so then add 20 44 and 40 and you get 104 shirts.

anonymous · Answer

so would my guess of B be wrong?

dmb1215 · Answer

I would just be 4 because you cant have a hundredth of a shirt

anonymous · Answer

so it would look like, red shirts:r;yellow shirts: 4r?

dmb1215 · Answer

redx.01r+r

anonymous · Answer

u can only use one variable

dmb1215 · Answer

x is times

anonymous · Answer

oh, lolz i'm smart. thxs so much for the help :)