Question

Margie is responsible for buying a week's supply of food and medication for the dogs and cats at a local shelter. The food and medication for each dog costs twice as much as those supplies for a cat. She needs to feed 164 cats and 24 dogs. Her budget is $4240. How much can Margie spend on each dog for food and medication?
@iambatman i need help finding the equations i dont know how to do it without a verbal model

Answer 1

Well you need to just state what your x and y values will be and then it's a breeze :P, can you do that?

Answer 2

x=dogs
y-cats?
right?

Answer 3

Yes that works, x we'll say is dog food, y will be cat food

Answer 4

164x + 2(24y) = 4240

Answer 5

So we know 24x+164y = 4240 but we have another piece of information we can use, can you find it

Answer 6

ITT: iambatman and Compassionate are trying to show Pooja how to solve the same equation dffernetly.

Answer 7

xD no wonder why this is confusing :P is the other equation d=2c?

Answer 8

What are d and c

Answer 9

dog and cat of course

Answer 10

xD i had a diffrent way of labeling it :P

Answer 11

Oh ok, well lets keep the variables consistent, it's like when kids use different subscripts when using conservation of energy...uhg so annoying never works out :P

Answer 12

xD ok so x=2y?

Answer 13

So you'll have x = 2y, yeah :P

Answer 14

I'm sure you can finish it off from there

Answer 15

haha yep thanks :) both of u :)

Answer 16

I think we're just conusing her

Pooja, it's going to be a system of equations

Answer 17

I think she knows, we just did a system of equations problem before this

Answer 18

Or I hope she does xD

Answer 19

lO_Oks familiar pO_Oja
jw

Answer 20

nnesha chup karo
164c + 24(2c) = 4240
164c + 48c = 4240
212c = 4240
c = 20
i did it again xD d n c
d = 2c
d = 2(20) = 40
is that right?

Answer 21

c's and d's again! But yes it looks good :)

Answer 22

haha lol i cant help it thanks thought :D

Answer 23

*though