SOLUTION: Margie is responsible for buying a week's supply of food and medicine for the dogs and cats at a local shelter. The food and medicine for each dog cost twice as much as those suppl

Question 877546: Margie is responsible for buying a week's supply of food and medicine for the dogs and cats at a local shelter. The food and medicine for each dog cost twice as much as those supplies for a cat. She needs to feed 164 cats and 24 dogs. Her budget is $4240. How much can Margie spend on each dog for food and medicine?
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Answer by lwsshak3(11628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Margie is responsible for buying a week's supply of food and medicine for the dogs and cats at a local shelter. The food and medicine for each dog cost twice as much as those supplies for a cat. She needs to feed 164 cats and 24 dogs. Her budget is $4240. How much can Margie spend on each dog for food and medicine?
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let x=cost for each cat
2x=cost for each dog
164x+24*2x=4240
164x+48x=4240
212x=4242
x=20
2x=40
How much can Margie spend on each dog for food and medicine? $40
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
d = dollars per dog
c = dollars per cat
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From the price per individual ratio, d=2c.

Using dog and cat count,

dollars per cat, corresponding to about 3.96 dollars per dog.
Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Margie is responsible for buying a week's supply of food and medicine for the dogs and cats at a local shelter. The food and medicine for each dog cost twice as much as those supplies for a cat. She needs to feed 164 cats and 24 dogs. Her budget is $4240. How much can Margie spend on each dog for food and medicine?

Let amount she can spend on each dog's food and medicine be D
Then amount she can spend on each cat's food and medicine = , or
From this we get:
She can spend $ on each dog's food and medicine.
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