Question

Choose the correct answer.

Yves bought 420 tropical fish for a museum display. He bought 6 times as many parrotfish as angelfish. How many of each type of fish did he buy?

Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents the number of angelfish Yves bought and y represents the number of parrotfish he bought?


A.
x + y = 6
y = 420x

B.
x + 6y = 420
y = 6x

C.
x – y = 420
y = 6x

D.
x + y = 420
y = 6x

Answer 1

i think c

Answer 2

plz help

Answer 3

remember the sum or al the fish is 420... so that eliminate c

Answer 4

i also thought it was a

Answer 5

@campbell_st

Answer 6

well in A x + y = 6 means that you bought 6 fish in total.

Answer 7

i didn't think it was d but how about b

Answer 8

plz help

Answer 9

D because X(angelfish) and Y (Parrotfish)
x+y = 420
y=6x -- Parrotfish = 6 times the amount of angel fish hope it helped

Answer 10

thanks :)

Answer 11

no problem