The total number of bears in the park during Year 3 is 50. Write and solve a

Question

linear equation to determine how many bears were in the park during Year
1. Note that this answer will not be the same as the answer you got in part
b

Answer 1

Let x be the number of bears in the park during Year 1.

Given that the total number of bears in the park during Year 3 is 50, we can write the following equation:

x + (x + 5) + (x + 10) = 50
3x + 15 = 50
3x = 35
x = 35/3
x = 11.67

Therefore, there were approximately 11.67 bears in the park during Year 1.