Question

A garden contains 135 flowers, each of which is either red or yellow. there are 3 beds of yellow flowers and 3 beds of red flowers. there are 30 yellow flowers in each yellow flower bed.

Part A: if r represents the number of flowers in each red flower bed, what equation could you use to represent the number of red and yellow flowers.

Answer 1

135 = 3y + 3r

y = 30; r = 15

Explanation:

y = 3y + 3r

Where,

y = total number of flowers in the garden = 135

y = number of flowers in each yellow flower bed = 30

r = number of flowers in each red flower bed

135 = 3(30) + 3r

135 = 90 + 3r

135 - 90 = 3r

45 = 3r

r = 45/3

r = 15 flowers

number of flowers in each red flower bed = 15