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Salt Lake Exotic Animals Project 2S Community , College somes: —Baadlgat Pwssin) Math Department Write down necessary steps and answer legibly and clearly to earn full credit. You may do this project individually or in a group of no more than 3 people. If you do this project in a group, please submit one project per group. After you finalize your answers, submit this project in pdf format by attaching to art e-mail sending to Shane. Tang@sicc..edu. No credit or extension will be given if you send a corrupted file. Please submit this project by February 12. (The following question was modified from Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager’s Precalculus.) Daniels Exotic Animal Rescue houses snakes, tarantulas and scorpions. When asked how many animals of each kind he boards, Daniel answered: ‘We board 114 total animals, and I am responsible for each of their 496 legs and 75 tails.’ The following steps will guide you to find out how many of each animal the Rescue board. (Recall: tarantulas have 8 legs and no tails, scorpions have 8 legs and one tail, and snakes have no legs and one tail.) 1, Use a variate co represent dre ember ofeact of tie Sanimals. White down witat cao represents. t = Tarantulas A= Scov Pins S= Snakes 2. Use the above 3 variable to write down the system of 3 linear equations based on the question. t+ Ors ell St +80, = 170 O45 275 Intermeciiate Algebra Page 1 © 2016 Shane Tang

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