In a recent survey 5/8 of the Siamese cat said that they didn't mind having a lap up water from a bowl but another 3/16 admitted they would have preferred to use a straw instead of 39 of the Siamese cats gave one of these two answers how many were surveyed in total make sure your answer is fully reduced

48 Siamese cats were surveyed

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the total number of surveyed Siamese cats.

Since 5/8 of the Siamese cat said that they didn't mind having a lap up water from a bowl , hence:

Number of cats who lapped = (5/8)x

Also, 3/16 admitted they would have preferred to use a straw:

Number of cats who used straw = (3/16)x

Taking into consideration that 39 of the Siamese cats gave one of those two answers:

(5/8)x + (3/16)x = 39

(13 / 16)x = 39

x = 39 * 16 / 13

x = 48

48 Siamese cats were surveyed

something that characterises a right triangle is the fact that we may use pythagoras' theorem to find any one of its sides given that we have the length of the other two sides. here, we have the length of the hypotenuse, √(87) yd, and one other side, √(23) yd, thus we can easily find the length of the remaining side using pythagoras' theorem as defined below:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2, where c is the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b are the lengths of the other two sides.

thus, given that c = √(87) and a = √(23), we may substitute these into the formula we defined above to get:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

(√87)^2 = (√23)^2 + b^2 (substitute c = √87 and a = √23 into the equation)

87 = 23 + b^2 (evaluate (√87)^2 = 87 and (√23)^2 = 23 - remember that the square root of a number, squared will equal that very same number)

64 = b^2 (subtract 23 from both sides)

√64 = b (take the square root of both sides)

8 = b (evaluate √64 = 8)

therefor, the length of the unknown leg in the right triangle is 8 yd (first answer).