Answer:
64 jellyfish in total
Explanation:
Let x be the total number of jellyfish.
We know that SpongeBob receives
jellyfish and Patrick receives
jellyfish.
We also know that SpongeBob receives 16 less jellyfish than Patrick, so we can write the following equation:

Simplifying the left-hand side of the equation, we get:


Multiplying both sides of the equation by 4, we get:


Therefore, there are 64 jellyfish in total.