Cycle Paths, Inc makes bicycles, tricycles and unicycles. Last week, they made....

[joeb]

Cycle Paths, Inc makes bicycles, tricycles and unicycles. Last week, they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?

i dont get this? how do you solve this?

 

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Cycle Paths, Inc makes bicycles, tricycles and unicycles. Last week, they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?

i dont get this? how do you solve this?

What are your thoughts?

Please share your work with us ...even if you know it is wrong

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http://www.freemathhelp.com/forum/th...Before-Posting!!Hint: Name your variables and convert those "condition" statements to mathematical equations - and solve.

Let:

# of bikes made = B ; # of trikes made = T & # of unis made = U ; Then:

"they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles"→ U + 88 = B

and continue.....

 

[stapel]

Cycle Paths, Inc makes bicycles, tricycles and unicycles. Last week, they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?

i dont get this? how do you solve this?

Use what they taught you about translating (here) and solving linear equations (here):

a) They defined bicycles and tricycles in terms of unicycles, so pick a variable (say, "u") for the number of unicycles.

b) What expression, in terms of the variable in (a), stands for "eighty-eight more than"?

c) What expression, in terms of the variable in (a), stands for "fives times as many as"?

d) What expression, in terms of the expression for the number of tricycles in (c), stands for "forty more than"?

(e) Given the expressions in (b) and (d) for the number of bicycles, what equation can you create?

(f) What solution do you get for the value of the variable?

If you get stuck, please write back showing your work for each of the questions above. Thank you!