Question

A local animal shelter has 600 cats and dogs. There are 2 times more cats than dogs. Let x represent the number of cats and let y represent the number of dogs. Which system of equations represents this situation?

Answer 1

1,200x + 600y or 2x + y= 600

Explanation:

knowing that there are 600 cats and 2 times the amount of cats we will have 1,200 cats which is 1,200x + 600y

Answer 2

2x + y = 600

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