Vikas is the head of student council this year at his high school in London. He is responsible for planning the annual graduatio
n trip to Canada's Wonderland. The students will spend one full day at the park and return late that evening. The school has rented a bus for transportation. The entry fee into the park is $50 and the bus costs $600. Write an equation to relate the cost, C, in dollars to the number of student, s, who participate in this fun trip. The total cost of the trip was $2750. How many students did Vikas recruit for this trip? Vikas receives a free trip if he is able to fill 90% of the bus. The bus has a seating capacity of 46 seats. Did Vikas receive his free trip? Show your work.
First you plug in the data to the formula. So it will be 2(1/3+1/2). You then want to add the fractions together but must first find the common denominator which will be 6. So it is 2(2/6+3/6). The fractions then add up to be 5/6. So all you have to do is multiply it by 2 to get 5/3 which simplifies to 1 2/3 so it is D.
