Question

The county fair charges $1.25 per ticket for the rides. Jermaine bought 25 tickets for the rides and spent a total of $43.75 at the fair. Jermaine spent his money only on ride tickets and fair admission. The price of the fair admission is the same for everyone. Use y to represent the total cost and x to represent the number of ride tickets.
(a) Define your variables.
(b) Write a linear equation that can be used to determine the cost for anyone who only pays for ride
tickets and fair admission.
(c) Explain your answer to Part 1b.

Answer 1

Hello Anna,

(a)

1.25 per ticket

? number of rides (x)

43.75 total cost (y)

Admission (z)

(b) Linear Equation - 1.25x + z = y

(c) Well you need to calculate the totaly number of rides that person took and add that to the admission cost.