Question

OK! One more so I can go to bed already! The attendance at the Saturday night baseball game was three times the attendance at Sunday's game. In all, 56,000 fans attended the games. How many fans were at each game?

Answer 1

So take the first sentence again. let A be the sAturday attendence and U be the sUnday attendence.

Answer 2

What is the equation given by the first sentence.

Answer 3

"Saturday's attendence was three times Sunday's attendance"

Answer 4

Right. So A=Saturday and U=Sunday
Equation: U*3=A

Answer 5

Yes. Now if the total attendance for both nights was 56000. What is the equation that represents this fact?

Answer 6

U+A=56000

Answer 7

Yep. Now take what you know about A and substitute it out in that equation.

Answer 8

Ok. This is where Im stuck!
All I know is that A is 3 times U.

Answer 9

Right. So if A = 3U then doesn't A + U = 3U + U ?

Answer 10

O M G ! I think I got it! It just clicked!
So my equation would be 3U+U=4U
I then take 4U and divide it by the total 56000
I get 14,000. U=14,000 fans.
RIGHT?

Answer 11

Yes

Answer 12

i would then take the 14000 and subtract that by the total 56000 and get the answer for A.
A=42000

Is this it?

Answer 13

Yep, you got it.

Answer 14

Alternatively you could have multiplied U by 3 to get A.

Answer 15

OH WHAT JOY!
PolPak, U f**kin rock!
Thanks so much for being my personal tutor tonight!
I really do appreciate it!
I think I got it now!

Answer 16

I'm really glad =)

Answer 17

Have a great and relaxing night!
Thanks again! ^_^

Answer 18

You too.