Question 3223: Drglass, thank you for helping me with the math problem. I appreciate it so much. The math problem was regarding the fishermans. Anyway, I'm a bit confused with part c. Can you please help elaborate the solution. Thank you.
-Maria
Answer by drglass(89)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! First, keep in mind that this problem is really hard. It took me sometime to figure it out.
We have three subparts to the problem. Each part determines the number of fish in the basket when each fisherman arrives. The equations are:
 for the last fisherman
 for the second fishermna
and
 for the third fisherman
We can guess at a solution by selecting values for x and substituting them into each equation. You might have to scroll down a bit to find the answer:
| x | third fisherman
| second fisherman
 | first fisherman
 | Does it
work? |
| 3 | 10 | 16 | 25 | yes, these are all whole numbers |
| 4 | 13 |  | --- | no, M is a fraction, which
means the second fisherman had
a fraction of a fish in
the basket when he arrived. |
| 5 | 16 | 25 |  | no, T is a fraction, which
means the first fisherman had
a fraction of a fish in
the basket when he arrived. |
| 6 | 19 |  | --- | no, M is a fraction, which
means the second fisherman had
a fraction of a fish in
the basket when he arrived. |
| 7 | 22 |  |  | YES, 7 WORKS |
I missed 7 in my first answer, which just goes to show that writing everything out and putting it into a table is a good idea
Does this help?
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