Question

Animal Kingdom - You won the lottery and decided to buy all of the cats and dogs at a shelter and let them all roam free on a farm. You forgot to ask exactly how many dogs and how many cats they were giving you, but you know that there are 152 animals altogether and there are 3 times as many dogs as there are cats. Write an equation to find out the number of dogs and cats and then solve it.​

Answer 1

3x=152

Explanation:

You know that there are 152 animals intotal so that goes at the end. if we say that the dogs are x because we dont know how many there are, then there are 3 times more cats then there are x.