Sally saw three kinds of flowers---tulips, roses, daffodils. She saw 3 times as many tulips as roses and 4 times as many daffodils as roses. Altogether there were 72 flowers. How many of each flower did she see.

Question

How do I start finding the answer? Or do I figure the average of 24 of each flower. Divide by 3 to equal 8 and divide by to equal 6. 24 plus 8 (32) - 24 plus 6 (30) and 10 with total 72?

Answer 1

you have three quantities: t,r,d and they give you some facts:

t = 3r
and so on. Then solve for the values.