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an animal shelter spends $4.50 per day to care for each cat and $8.50 per day to care for each dog. violet noticed that the shelter spent $219.00 caring for cats and dogs on thursday. violet found a record showing that there were a total of 30 cats and dogs on thursday. how many cats were at the shelter on thursday?

9 cats

Step-by-step explanation:

x = cat

y = dog

Set up equations.

x + y = 30

4.5x + 8.5y = 219

Multiply first equation by 4.5 and subtract.

4.5x + 4.5y = 135

-(4.5x + 8.5y = 219)

-4y = -84

y = 21

Substitute this y value into the first equation

x + y = 30

x + 21 = 30

x = 9

step-by-step explanation:

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event