Question

Kendall has 8 times as many guppies as she has goldfish. Kendall has 32 guppies in her fish tank. Write and solve an equation to find out how many goldfish Kendall has

Answer 1

Solution

Notation

GP= Guppies number

GD= Goldfish number

We can do the following:

GP= 8GD

GP= 32

then we can find the number of Goldfish (GD) like this:

32= 8 GD

Solving for Gd we have:

GD= 32/8= 4

Then she has 4 goldfish