Question

Noah can't wait for lunchtime. Today is taco day! The cafeteria made three times as many beef tacos as chicken tacos and 50 more fish tacos as chicken tacos. They made 945 tacos in all. How many more beef tacos are there than fish tacos? Correct answer with units (if applicable) is worth 2 points; correct answer only is worth 1 point.

Answer 1

308 beef tacos

Explanation:

Let chicken tacos = c

Let beef tacos = 3c

Let fish tacos = c + 50

945 = c + 3c + c + 50

Simplify to 945 = 5c + 50

Subtract 50 on both sides and divide 5 to get

chicken tacos = 179

Plug in 179 to beef tacos to get 179*3 = 537

Plug in 179 to fish tacos to get 179 + 50 = 229

Subtract 537-229 to get how many more beef tacos than fish tacos, and so the answer is 308 beef tacos