Calculating Garden Space Allocation

Angela is planning a gardening project where she wants to plant flowers and vegetables. She has decided to allocate her garden space in the following way: she will use three times as much space for flowers than for vegetables. If she has a total of 80 square feet available for planting, how many square feet will she dedicate to each type of planting?

Let the area dedicated to vegetables be represented as $v$. According to the problem, the area for flowers will then be $3v$. The equation representing the total area available is:

$$ v + 3v = 80 $$