15 points! please answer all questions
- Choose the correct answer.
Elena bought 320 tropical fish for a museum display. She bought 7 times as many triggerfish as parrotfish. How many of each type of fish did she buy?
Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents the number of parrotfish Elena bought and y represents the number of triggerfish she bought?
A.
x + y = 320
y = 7x
B.
x + 7y = 320
y = 7x
C.
x – y = 320
y = 7x
D.
x + y = 7
y = 320x
- Michael and Kathryn bowl together and their combined total score for one game was 425 points. Michael’s score was 70 less than twice Kathryn’s. What were their scores?
Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents Kathryn’s score and y represents Michael’s score?
A.
x + y = 70
y = 2x – 425
B.
x – y = 425
y = 2x – 70
C.
x + y = 425
y = 2x – 70
D.
x + y = 425
y = 2x + 70
- David has a hose that is 27 ft long. He wants to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece is 3 ft more than 2 times the length of the shorter piece.
How long will each piece of hose be?
Shorter piece:______ft
Longer piece:______ ft
- Admission for a movie is $8 for children and $12 for adults. On a certain day, 3200 people attend the movie theater and $33,040 is collected.
How many children and how many adults attended the movies?
children.__?____
adults.____?____
5.A collection of quarters and dimes is worth $12.40. There are 67 coins in all.
How many of each coin are there?
quarters.___?_____
dimes.___?____
Which is a system of equations to model the problem if x represents the number of parrotfish Elena bought and y represents the number of triggerfish she bought?
A.
x + y = 320
y = 7x
B.
x + 7y = 320
y = 7x
C.
x – y = 320
y = 7x
D.
x + y = 7
y = 320x
A.
x + y = 70
y = 2x – 425
B.
x – y = 425
y = 2x – 70
C.
x + y = 425
y = 2x – 70
D.
x + y = 425
y = 2x + 70
Shorter piece:______ft
Longer piece:______ ft
children.__?____
adults.____?____
5.A collection of quarters and dimes is worth $12.40. There are 67 coins in all.
How many of each coin are there?
quarters.___?_____
dimes.___?____