Question

Excellence Middle School charges $6.25 for students from all grade levels to attend the school dance. If S represents the number of seventh grade students who came to the dance and g represents the number of eighth grade students at the dance, which expression BEST represents the total money collected for attending the dance.
a. 6.25s + g
b. 6.25(s + g)
c. 13.50(s + g)
d. 6.25(s + g)

Answer 1

The answer would be b: 6.25(s+g)

you can already cancel out c., as there’s no way it could be 13.50

since it says it’s $6.25 dollars for all grades and you would be trying to find both 7th and 8th graders, you would need to multiply both variables by the amount they need to pay. in this case, $6.25.