B=-3
because you divide 27 by -9 to get y by its self
Answer:
(C) 220
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the number of adult tickets sold and y represent the number of student tickets sold. With the information given, we can set up two equations:
(Since for every adult ticket sold, $5 is made and for every student ticket sold, $3 is made)
In the first equation, we can represent x in terms of y:

And then, we can substitute x in the second equation for 360 - y to get:
which simplifies to:
and therefore,
.
Hope this helps :)
9/14 stays the same
2/7 turns into 4/14
1/ into 7/14
all of them added is 20/14
simplified is 1 3/7