Okay, so it has been 20 years since I have been in high school algebra. My son has a problem I can't solve.
There were a number of bats in a cave. 2 bats could see out of the right eye, 3 could see out of the left eye, 4 could not see out of the left eye, and 5 could not see out of the right eye. What is the least number of bats in the cave and what might their eyesight have been? Were they totally blind, blind only in the right,, etc.?
So far I have
x = total bats
x-2 = +right eye bat
x-3 = + left eye
x-4 = -left eye
x-5 = -right eye
Does that make any sense? I was going to line up tha equation and solve but now I am stuck. Am I even going in the right direction with this?
PLEASE HELP ME.
2006-10-26
14:03:41
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