Question

Your family goes to a southern style restaurant for dinner. There are 6 people in your family. Some order the chicken dinner for $14 and some order the steak dinner for $17. If the total bill was $99 l, how many people ordered each dinner?

Answer 1

Ok. You can use equations to find out what number of each meal was eaten. 

x*14+y*17=99

If you solve for x and y (I used guess and check- there's only a few possible combinations) and got one chicken dinner and five steak dinners.

Answer 2

Answer : The number people that ordered chicken dinner and steak dinner are, 1 and 5 respectively.

Step-by-step explanation :

Let the number people that ordered chicken dinner be, x

So, the number people that ordered steak dinner will be, (6-x)

As per question, some order the chicken dinner for $14 and some order the steak dinner for $17. The equation will be:

$14x+17(6-x)=99$

By solving the term 'x', we get:

$14x+17\times 6-17x=99$

$14x+102-17x=99$

$14x-17x=99-102$

$-3x=-3$

$3x=3$

$x=\frac{3}{3}$

$x=1$

Thus, the number people that ordered chicken dinner = x = 1

and, number people that ordered steak dinner = (6-x) = 6-1 = 5

Thus, the number people that ordered chicken dinner and steak dinner are, 1 and 5 respectively.