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?
a.
x – y = 360
y = 8x

b.x + y = 360
y = 8x

c.
x + y = 8
y = 360x

d. x + 8y = 360
y = 8x

Answer 1

@Secret-Ninja

Answer 2

not interested in learning, are you?

Answer 3

@pgpilot326 Why are you being rude to this user?

Answer 4

im just checking my answers dang

Answer 5

just asking if they are interested in learning

Answer 6

what's your answer?

Answer 7

how did you get it?

Answer 8

this question is very similar to the previous one... what did you learn from that one? what equations did you get?

Answer 9

you can exit now cause its not like you helping me and im not evben on this question anymore

Answer 10

go look at the previous post and see what i wrote... it might help you with this one. if you're interested in learning, I will help you!

Answer 11

:-

Answer 12

Smartale, if you no longer need help, you can close it. :)

pgpilot, please stop harassing this user. There are better methods of asking, such as being polite.

Answer 13

@Secret-Ninja, perhaps you're offended not because of what I did but because of what you did. I haven't been rude and I haven't enabled this person's mathematical stagnation.