Question

Nancy bought 360 tropical fish for a museum display. She bought 8 times as many goldfish as angelfish. How many of each type of fish did she buy?

Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents the number of angelfish Nancy bought and y represents the number of goldfish she bought?

Answer 1

A. x – y = 360
y = 8x

Answer 2

B. x + y = 360
y = 8x

Answer 3

C. x + y = 8
y = 360x

Answer 4

D. x + 8y = 360
y = 8x

Answer 5

@CoconutJJ

Answer 6

@jim_thompson5910

Answer 7

\(\large\color{blue}{ y }\) is: number of \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm goldfish }\)
\(\large\color{blue}{x }\) is: number of \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm angelfish }\)

Answer 8

you have:
`360 tropical fish for a museum display.`
(saying that \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm goldfish }\) and \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm angelfish }\) altogether is 360 fishes)

`She bought 8 times as many goldfish as angelfish. `
(saying that the number of \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm goldfish }\) is \(\normalsize\color{blue}{\rm8~times~greater }\) than the number of \(\normalsize\color{black}{\rm angelfish }\))

Answer 9

Can you write your equations with all I gave you?

Answer 10

so is it B ?

Answer 11

@demonchild99