Question

Alex and Leandro purchase two matinee movie tickets. A matinee ticket costs $6.50, a drink costs $5.50, and a bag of popcorn costs $6.00. Define each variable and write an algebraic expression to describe how much they spend based on the number of drinks and bags of popcorn they buy. Identify the parts of the expression by underlining the coefficient(s), circling the constant(s), and drawing a box around the variable(s).

Answer 1

Since they buy 2 $6.50 tickets, they already spend $13 without buying any popcorn or drinks.

For the expression, you can write-

$5.50d + $6.00p + $13 // d representing however many drinks they buy and p representing the amount of popcorn they buy.

This expression will give you the total amount of money spent with varying amounts of drinks and popcorn bought.