Question

The Band Booster club sells beverages for $1.26 and candy for $1.09 at home games. Their goal is to have total sales of $181.59 for each game. Write an equation in standard form that would model the different amounts of candy and drinks that could be sold to reach the goal. Use the variables x for beverages and y for candy.

Answer 1

Amount times cost=profit

profit beverages=x times 1.26 or 1.26x
profit candy=y times 1.09 or 1.09y

the total profit is profit beverage plus profit candy or 1.26x+1.09y
they want total profit of 181.59

so
181.59=1.26x+1.09y is the answer in standard form
usually, we want whole numbers, but that's fine