Question

Brandon earns a rebate each month on his meals and movie tickets. He earns $0.50 for each movie ticket and $2 for each meal. Last month Brandon purchased 22 movie tickets and earned $25. Part A: Create an equation that will determine the number of meals he purchased. (3 points)

Answer 1

This is the concept of simultaneous equations; We are required to create the equations modelling the above information.
Suppose the number of movie tickets was x and the number of meal tickets was y.
Therefore;
Total number of tickets was:
x+y=22
Total amount earned was:
0.5x+2y=25
The simultaneous equations representing the information is:
x+y=22
0.5x+2y=25