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

What do you think?

Answer 2

D

Answer 3

@JohnKnows

Answer 4

I think so too, do you know why it's D?

Answer 5

Well If you look at the answers it is the only one that makes sense, since you you that it needs to start with x+y=240