Question

So, Christian has a collection of 18 shark teeth. He identified them as 6 tiger shark teeth, 8 sand shark teeth, and the rest as bull shark teeth, I don’t get the 2nd question, can anyone help??

Answer 1

So, the question means that if we add the number of tiger shark teeth and the sand shark teeth and subtract it from the total number of teeth, we will get the number of bull shark teeth. And, the number of bull shark teeth is 4.

Explanation:

So, the question means that if we add the number of tiger shark teeth and the sand shark teeth and subtract it from the total number of teeth, we will get the number of bull shark teeth.

Since Christian has 18 shark teeth, and 6 are tiger shark teeth, 8 are sand shark teeth and the rest are bull shark teeth.

Let x represent the number of bull shark teeth.

So, total number of shark teeth = number of tiger shark teeth + number of sand shark teeth + number of bull shark teeth.

18 = 6 + 8 + x

18 = 14 + x

subtracting 14 from both sides, we have

18 - 14 = 14 - 14 + x

4 = 0 + x

4 = x

x = 4

So, the number of bull shark teeth is 4.