Answer: 5 days
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the number of pallets that the tan gerbil eat be x.
Since the brown gerbil eats 10 less than 4 times the number of pallets as the tan gerbil and eats 30 pallets pee day. This will be:
(4 × x) - 10 = 30
4x - 10 = 30
4x = 30 + 10.
4x = 40
x = 40/4
x = 10
The tan gerbil eats 10 pallets per day.
Both gerbil eats (30 + 10) = 40 gerbils per day.
Since the family has 200 pallets of food left, the number of days that they can feed both of the gerbils would be:
= 200 / 40
= 5 days
