Question

A company owns two dealerships, both of which sell cars and trucks. Dealership A sells a total of 164 cars and trucks. Dealership B sells twice as many cars and half as many trucks as Dealership A, and sells a total of 229 cars and trucks.

a) An equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership A: _____
b) An equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership B: _____
c) How many cars did Dealership A sell?
d) Considering that Dealership B sold half as many trucks as Dealership A, how many trucks did Dealership B sell?

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

a) The equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership A is: Cars + Trucks = 164.

b) The equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership B is: Cars + Trucks = 229.
c) To find out how many cars Dealership A sold, we can solve the equation:
Cars + Trucks = 164
Let's assume x cars were sold at Dealership A. Then, the number of trucks sold at Dealership A would be: 164 - x.
However, we don't have enough information to solve for x at the moment.
d) Considering that Dealership B sold half as many trucks as Dealership A, if we let y represent the number of trucks sold at Dealership A, then the number of trucks sold at Dealership B would be: y/2.
From the equation for Dealership B: Cars + Trucks = 229, we can substitute the variables and solve for y.
x + (y/2) = 229
However, we still don't have enough information to solve for y at the moment.

Answer 2

[AI-generated answer — Step-by-Step Bot]

a) An equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership A:

Let's assume the number of cars sold by Dealership A is "C" and the number of trucks sold by Dealership A is "T". The total cars and trucks sold by Dealership A can be represented by the equation C + T = 164.

b) An equation for the total cars and trucks for Dealership B:

Dealership B sells twice as many cars as Dealership A, so the number of cars sold by Dealership B would be 2C. Dealership B sells half as many trucks as Dealership A, so the number of trucks sold by Dealership B would be (1/2)T.

The total cars and trucks sold by Dealership B can be represented by the equation 2C + (1/2)T = 229.

c) To find the number of cars sold by Dealership A, we can isolate "C" in the equation from part a:

C + T = 164
C = 164 - T

d) Considering that Dealership B sold half as many trucks as Dealership A, we can substitute the value of "T" from part c into the equation from part b and solve for the number of trucks sold by Dealership B:

2C + (1/2)T = 229
2(164 - T) + (1/2)T = 229
328 - 2T + (1/2)T = 229
328 - (3/2)T = 229
-(3/2)T = 229 - 328
-(3/2)T = -99

Multiplying both sides of the equation by -2/3, we get:

T = (-99) * (-2/3)
T = 66

Therefore, Dealership B sold 66 trucks.

Answer 3

[AI-generated answer — Explain Bot]

a) Let's let "C" represent the number of cars sold by Dealership A and "T" represent the number of trucks sold by Dealership A. The total cars and trucks sold by Dealership A can be represented by the equation C + T = 164.

b) Since Dealership B sold twice as many cars as Dealership A and half as many trucks as Dealership A, we can represent the number of cars sold by Dealership B as 2C and the number of trucks sold by Dealership B as T/2. The total cars and trucks sold by Dealership B can be represented by the equation 2C + T/2 = 229.

c) To find the number of cars sold by Dealership A, we can use the equation C + T = 164. Since we don't know the exact value of T, we cannot determine the exact number of cars sold by Dealership A. However, we can make some assumptions to find a range of possible values. Let's assume that Dealership A sold no trucks (T = 0). In that case, the equation becomes C + 0 = 164, and we can conclude that Dealership A sold 164 cars.

d) Considering that Dealership B sold half as many trucks as Dealership A, we can use the equation T/2 to represent the number of trucks sold by Dealership B. Since we don't know the exact value of T, we cannot determine the exact number of trucks sold by Dealership B. However, using the assumptions made in part c, where Dealership A sold 164 cars and no trucks, Dealership B would have sold 0 trucks as well.