Question

The budget for making the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon was one-fifth the budget for making Harry Potter: The Half Blood Prince. Together the budgets totaled $300 million. What was the budget for The Twilight Saga: New Moon?

Answer 1

Answer:

The budget for The Twilight Saga: New Moon = $50 million

Explanation:

Let the budget for Twilight Saga: New Moon = T

Let the budget for Harry Potter: The Half Blood Prince = H

We are given the following:

$T=\frac{1}{5}H$ (The budget for Twilight Saga is one-fifth the budget for Harry Potter)

Cross multiplying the equation

5T = H  - - - - (1)

H + T = 300,000,000 - - - - - (2) (Together the budgets totaled $300 million)

Next, let us substitute the value of H in equation (2) with equation (1)

(5T) + T = 300,000,000

6T = 300,000,000

$T = \frac{300,000,000}{6} \\T = 50,000,000$

Therefore, the budget for The Twilight Saga: New moon = $50,000,000

And the budget for Harry Potter: The Half Blood Prince = $250,000,000