Question

Item 9 A company that offers tubing trips down a river rents tubes for a person to use and “cooler” tubes to carry food and water. A group spends $270 to rent a total of 15 tubes. Write a system of linear equations that represents this situation. Use xx to represent the number of one-person tubes rented and yy to represent the number of cooler tubes rented. How many of each type of tube does the group rent?

Answer 1

You would need to know how much it cost to rent each type of tube in order to solve this problem.

One of the equations would be xx+yy=15
The number of single tubes plus the number of cooler tubes is 15.

If you know how much each tube cost, simply put the cost in front of the xx/yy and set it equal to 270$. For example, if the single tubes cost 15$ and the cooler tubes cost 20$, then the equation would be 15xx+20yy=270