Question

An animal shelter has a total of 350 animals comprised of cats, dogs, and rabbits. If the number of rabbits is 5 less than one-half the number of cats, and there are 20 more cats than dogs, how many cats are at the shelter?

Answer 1

This is the concept of algebra, suppose that the number of cats is x;
number of cats will be x-20
number of rabbits will be 3/2x
thus the total number of animals will be:
x+(x-20)+3/2x=350
7/2x=350+20
7/2x=370
x=370*2/7
x=105.7=106
therefore we conclude that there we 106 cats in the shelter