An animal shelter spends $3.50 per day to care for each cat and $4.00 per day to care for each dog. easton noticed that the shelter spent $65.50 caring for cats and dogs on tuesday. easton found a record showing that there were a total of 17 cats and dogs on tuesday. how many cats were at the shelter on tuesday? i need quickliy

There were 13 cats and 4 dogs.

Step-by-step explanation:

because you need to guess and check until you get it.

so basically. i multiplied 3.50 times different amounts. and i got 45.5 then i subtracted 13 from 17 and yeah

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step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!