Clean plant the number of ken who's won more than four times the number of bottles she earns $0.12 for each bottle and send $10.18 at all how many cans and bottles did she recycle solomon decided to solve the problem by writing one asian he said i can let b represent the number of bottles then 4v + 1 would be the number of ken my equation would b12 be + 104 b + 1 equals 218 marcus agreed with solomon's answer but said it is easier to solve this problem with two equations i can let b represent the number of bottles and c represent the number of cans that way in my two equations are c=4b