To solve this problem, we first have to find our unknowns. Our unknowns are the number of ropes and stuffed animals that Spot has. We can set up equations for these unknowns by letting  represent ropes and  represent stuffed animals. 

 because he has  more stuffed animals than his  balls. 

 because he has five times as many ropes as his  balls. 

Now we need to add up our number of balls, stuffed animals and ropes to find our total. 

To solve this problem, we first have to find our unknowns. Our unknowns are the number of laps he swims on Wednesday and Thursday and the number of laps he swims on Friday. We can set up equations for these unknowns by letting  represent the laps that he swims on Wednesday and Thursday and  represent the number of laps he swims on Friday. 

 because when we double something we multiply by .

 because he is swimming  less laps than he did on Monday, which means we subtract. 

To find the total amount of laps that he swam, we need to add up the laps that he did each day. 

To solve this problem, we first have to find our unknowns. Our unknowns are how many meerkats there are total (T) and how many meerkats are left in the burrow (L).

 because there are  families of meerkats and each of them has  members of the family. Each is a keyword for multiplication so that gives us a hint.

 because there are  meerkats total in the burrows and  meerkats are subtracted because they left the burrow.

There are  meerkats left in the burrows.

To solve this problem, we first have to find our unknowns. Our unknowns are how many baseball cards Patrick received in total (T) and how many cards each child will receive (C).

 because he received  cards from his friend and then another  from his uncle. The cards would be added together to find the total.

÷ because there are  cards total and they are being shared equally among Patrick AND his two brothers so there are  children total. "Shared equally" is a keyword for division.

Each child will receive  cards in total.

To solve this problem, we first have to find our unknowns. Our unknowns are how much did it snow during the weekdays (W) and how much did it snow on Saturday (S).

 because we need to know how much it snowed during the weekdays in total. We must add together the amount of snow from Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

 because it snowed  times as much on Saturday as it did the rest of the week. The total snow from the weekdays will be multiplied by  to find out how much it snowed on Saturday.

On Saturday it snowed a total of  inches.

 is added to each X value to get the Y value. 

To find the rule, you may have to do some trial and error. The most important thing to remember is, once you think you have the rule, make sure to test the rule with all of the X values. 

 is added to each X value to get the Y value. 

To find the rule, you may have to do some trial and error. The most important thing to remember is, once you think you have the rule, make sure to test the rule with all of the X values. 

 is added to each X value to get the Y value. 

To find the rule, you may have to do some trial and error. The most important thing to remember is, once you think you have the rule, make sure to test the rule with all of the X values. 

 is added to each X value to get the Y value. 

To find the rule, you may have to do some trial and error. The most important thing to remember is, once you think you have the rule, make sure to test the rule with all of the X values. 

 is added to each X value to get the Y value. 

To find the rule, you may have to do some trial and error. The most important thing to remember is, once you think you have the rule, make sure to test the rule with all of the X values.