Allison has 5 times as many baseball cards as football cards In all she has 120 baseball and football cards how many baseball cards does Allison have

Question

Forth  grade math 

Answer 1

I don't know how to do this without simple algebra which is not available to 4th graders, I think!

 

Allison must have 6 times the number of football cards altogether (5 sets of baseball cards each the size of her football cards collection plus the size of her football card collection).

 

Altogether she has 120 cards and this is 6 times the size of her football card collection; therefore, her football card collection must number 20 (6 * 20 =120).

 

Then she must have 5 times as many baseball cards, i.e. 5 * 20 = 100

 

Now baseball + football =100 + 20 as required.

 

I hope that is clear!