Question

At a Zoo, 3 pandas eat a total of 181 1/2 pounds of bamboo shoots each day.The male panda eats 3 times as much the baby. How many bamboo shoots does the female panda eat?

Answer 1

There's not enough information.

They ate 181.5 pounds. If the baby panda ate x pounds, then the male panda ate 3x pounds. But we don't know how much did the female ate, or something about her. If we suppose the female panda ate y, then you could use this ecuation:

181.5 - x - 3x = y

181.5 - 4x = y

But there are many answers to that.