Me with this answer asap the pet store has 3 times as many fish as hamsters. they have 8 more fish than hamsters. how many fish does the pet store have?

Your answer would be 12 fish.

We can find this by writing a set of equations where 'h' is hamsters and 'f' is fish. The information given tells us two ways in which f can be written:

f = 3h
f = h + 8

As these both equal 8, we can set them equal to each other and solve for h:

3h = h + 8
- h
2h = 8
÷ 2
h = 4

Now that we know there are 4 hamsters, we just multiply 4 by 3 as there are 3 times as many fish, to get 12.

I hope this helps!