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    Alexander's Exotic Animal Rescue cares for a total of 72 animals, consisting of snakes, frogs, and scorpions. The question provides a system of 3 linear equations to determine the number of each animal based on information about their total number, legs, and tails. Solving the augmented matrix using row reduction, the number of snakes is determined to be 26, frogs 22, and scorpions 24.

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    Alexander's Exotic Animal Rescue cares for a total of 72 animals, consisting of snakes, frogs, and scorpions. The question provides a system of 3 linear equations to determine the number of each animal based on information about their total number, legs, and tails. Solving the augmented matrix using row reduction, the number of snakes is determined to be 26, frogs 22, and scorpions 24.

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    Alexander's Exotic Animal Rescue cares for a total of 72 animals, consisting of snakes, frogs, and scorpions. The question provides a system of 3 linear equations to determine the number of each animal based on information about their total number, legs, and tails. Solving the augmented matrix using row reduction, the number of snakes is determined to be 26, frogs 22, and scorpions 24.

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    The following question is modified from Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager’s ​Precalculus​.

    Alexander’s Exotic Animal Rescue houses snakes, frogs, and scorpions. When asked how
    many animals of each kind he boards, Daniel answered: ‘We board 72 total animals, and I am
    responsible for each of their 280 legs and 50 tails.’ (Recall: snakes have no legs and one tail,
    frogs have 4 legs and no tail, and scorpions have 8 legs and one tail.)

    Your goal is to find the number of each animal the Rescue boards by answering the following
    questions.

    1. Use a variable to represent the number of each of the 3 animals. Write down what
    each variable represents.

    X= number of snakes

    y= number of frogs

    z= number of scorpions

    2. Write down the system of 3 linear equations.


    1. x+y+z=72
    2. 0x+4y+8z=280
    3. x+0y+z=50

    3. Write down the corresponding augmented matrix.

    1 1 1 72

    0 4 8 280

    1 0 1 50

    4. Solve the same system using matrices. Be sure to use correct notations and write
    down all necessary steps. No credit will be given if you use other techniques!
    1 1 1 72

    0 4 8 280

    1 0 1 50 Row3 - Row1

    1 1 1 72

    0 4 8 280

    0 -1 0 -22 ¼( Row2)

    1 1 1 72

    0 1 2 70

    0 -1 0 -22 Row3 + Row2

    1 1 1 72

    0 1 2 280

    0 0 2 48 ½(Row3)

    1 1 1 72

    0 1 2 70

    0 0 1 24 Row2 + -2(Row3)

    1 1 1 72

    0 1 0 22

    0 0 1 24 Row1 - Row 2
    1 0 1 50

    0 1 0 22

    0 0 1 24 Row1 - Row 3

    1 0 0 26

    0 1 0 22

    0 0 1 24

    5. State your answers in a complete sentence.

    Alexander’s Exotic Animal Rescue houses 26 snakes, 22 frogs, and 24 scorpions.

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