Animal Kingdom - You won the lottery and decided to buy all of the cats and dogs at a shelter and let them all roam free on a farm. You forgot to ask exactly how many dogs and how many cats they were giving you, but you know that there are 152 animals altogether and there are 3 times as many dogs as there are cats. Write an equation to find out the number of dogs and cats and then solve it.
You know that there are 152 animals intotal so that goes at the end. if we say that the dogs are x because we dont know how many there are, then there are 3 times more cats then there are x.