Algebra worf problems

Question

At the zoo there wete 3 times as many monkeys as lions tom counted total of 24 moneys and lions how many monkeys

Answer 1

I have punctuated and capitalized your original sentence so that it now is not a runon sentence:

 

At the zoo there were 3 times as many monkeys as lions. Tom counted a total of 24 moneys and lions. How many monkeys were there?

 

SOLUTION: Let L = # of lions; then 3L = # monkeys

 

L + 3L = 24 ... an equation from the stated facts.  You can solve this for L, then the# o fmonkeys is 3 times L.