Question

At the Boxer carnival, you can exchange 45 tickets for various assortments of prizes. Some of those assortments are below. How many tickets does it take to get a stuffed tiger?


1 goldfish, 5 tacky mirrors, 2 stuffed tiger

4 goldfish, 1 stuffed tiger

2 goldfish, 5 tacky mirrors

Answer 1

construct a 3x3 matrix using the coefficients from the word problem, augment it to a column matrix (45;45;45)

using gauss jordan elimination, you find

goldfish = 10 tickets.
tackymirror = 5 tickets.
stuffed tiger = 5 tickets.

therefore it takes 5 tickets to get a stuffed tiger.