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 got B

Answer 2

nope, think carefully.

x = number of angel fish
y = number of parrot fish

angel fish + parrot fish = 420

Answer 3

D?

Answer 4

yeah

Answer 5

Thank you