A city cat show is underway. Complete with purring, meowing, and an occasional hiss. There are three times as many orange cats as black and white cats, two times as many black and white cats as grey cats, three fewer gray cats then white cats, three times as many white cats as calico cats, and five white cats. How many of each kind of cat is in the show? How many in all?

Step-by-step explanation:

There are three times as many orange cats as black and white cats,

o = 3(b + w)

two times as many black and white cats as grey cats,

b + w = 2g

three fewer gray cats than white cats,

g = w - 3

three times as many white cats as calico cats,

w = 3L

and five white cats

w = 5

There is a problem with this.

There are 5 white cats.

There are 3 times as many white cats as calico cats.

That means there are 5/3 calico cats.

How can the number of a certain type f cats be a non-whole number?

It seems that the number of white cats must be a multiple of 3, but 5 is not.

x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)

false

step-by-step explanation:

the reason i say this is because for a certain length of sides you can pick any two and the length is wither equal or greater than the third side and in this case it's not.

3 + 5 = 8

8 is smaller than 9 which is the third side.

hope this : )