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 double means  times more. 

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 triple 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 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 find the value of x we add both of the known angles together. 

When we have an angle with a square symbol in the corner, that means we have a right angle, or a  angle. 

In order to simplify: , we have to find out how many of each thing we have. 

We can see that there are 2 a's in the group, so this becomes . 

We can see that there are 2 b's in the group as well, so this becomes . 

And there are no other c's, so the  stays the same. 

The result becomes,  

In order to "Simplify" , we have to put the things that are alike together. 

We can rewrite this as: , now we have all the a's and b's together. 

If I have 5 a's added to another 3 a's , that gives us a total of 8 a's. 

If I have 2b's added to another b, that gives us a total of 3 b's. 

If we put all of this together that will simplify to become: 

In order to solve this problem, we first have to find common denominators. 

Now that we have common denominators, we can add the fractions. Remember, when we add and subtract fractions, we only add or subtract the numerator. 

 because  can go into  one time, with one left over. 

In order to solve this problem, we first have to find common denominators. 

Now that we have common denominators, we can add the fractions. Remember, when we add and subtract fractions, we only add or subtract the numerator. 

 because  and go into  one time with four left over.  can be reduced to  by dividing the numerator and the denominator by