Question

PLEASE HELP ME WITH ALGEBRA FOR FAN + MEDAL!!!


Nancy has 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?

She bought ____ angelfish and ___ goldfish.

Put a comma between your answers, like this: 4, 5

Answer 1

So there is a total of 360 total....and those are made up of goldfish (we'll call them 'g') and Angelfish (call those 'a')

So

\[\large a + g = 360\]

now we also know that there are 8 times as many goldfish as there are angelfish...so

\[\large g = 8a\]

We have 2 equations and 2 unknowns..can you solve it?

Answer 2

40,320

Answer 3

Indeed :)