Olivia catches 7 times as many butterflies as Maddie. Maddie catches 2 times as much as Chase. All together, they have 560 butterflies.

Question

Olivia catches 7 times as many butterflies as Maddie. Maddie catches 2 times as much as Chase. All together they have 560 butterflies. how many butterflies does each person have?

Answer 1

Assume Chase catches x butterflies

Then Maddie catches  2x buttherlies

And Olivia catches 7*(2x) =14x buttrflies

 

Altogether hey have now x+2x+14x=17 x =560

so Chase has, x = 33 butterflies

Maddie has 2x = 66 butterflies

AndOlivia has 14x = 461 butterflies