Question

A gymnastics school offered a special for enrollment where a new student could enroll for half the price after paying a $17.50 application fee. Twelve new students enrolled, and the school collected $750. Which equation can be used to find p, the regular price of enrollment?

Answer 1

Answer:

12 (p/2 + 17.50) = 750 equation can be used to get regular price of enrollment.

Step-by-step explanation:

So when a new student gets enrolled by paying a $17.50 application fee and gets a value of price halved at p/2

where p = regular price of enrollment

So in reality, for the student to be enrolled he/she must pay = (p/2) + $17.50 application fee to be able to get that special offer.

So Twelve new students enrolled, meaning they paid: 12 (p/2 + 17.50 application fee)

The amount they all paid is $750.

To get the regular price of enrollment from the price that included the application fees, the equation to use would be: 12 (p/2 + 17.50) = 750

Answer 2

The correct answer is 12 ($\frac{p}{2}$ + 17.50) =750

Explanation:

In mathematics, an equation represents equality; this means mathematical expressions are placed to the sides of the equality sign and these have the same value. Moreover, if an equation is written based on a situation or description, the values should include the appropriate mathematical symbols (+, -, x, etc) depending on how each of the factors in the equation relates.

In the case presented, it is known the total collected was $750 and due to this, this value should be placed to one side of the symbol =. Moreover, this value was obtained as students paid 17.50 of the application fee plus half of the price. This can be written as $\frac{p}{2}$ (a half price or price divided 2) + 17.50 (application fee). Finally, these two values should be multiplied by 12 (number of students that paid). According to this, the equation is 12 ($\frac{p}{2}$ + 17.50) =750.