Question

Emily brought some money on a trip to the aquarium. She used half of the money to buy an admission ticket. Then, she $8 used to buy lunch at the food court. She used 3/4 of what was left to buy a souvenir, leaving her with . How much money did Emily take to the aquarium?

Answer 1

Let the total money be x.
0.5x + 0.75(0.5x) + 8 = x
You'll get the answer if you solve this.

Answer 2

Hmmmm is the first term correct? Does 0.5x mean half her money or does it mean half of the money she has left? I think we need to fix this.

Answer 3

well it is on working problems backwards if that helps any?

Answer 4

0.5 x means half the money. You can also write it as x/2.

Answer 5

Am I right meverett?

Answer 6

another copy and paste fail.

Answer 7

Then, she $8 used to buy lunch at the food court. She used 3/4 of what was left to buy a souvenir, leaving her with ????

Answer 8

That's not what you should find.

Answer 9

The answer is approximately 64.

Answer 10

I agree with satellite, can we look at the question again?

pratu unfortunately 0.5x is not half of the original money, it is 0.5 of the ending money.

Answer 11

thank you!! @pratu043

Answer 12

welcome

Answer 13

at the risk of repeating myself, and pratu's answer notwithstanding, there is a copy and paste failure here. how much money she is left with determines how much she started with, and that came up as a blank space in the question

Answer 14

well it was a muti. choice answer.

Answer 15

and not to be rude but in fact pratu's answer is simply wrong.

Answer 16

what mistake did I make?

Answer 17

okay then i could be 50/50 what do you think?

Answer 18

ok one more time
when you copied and pasted the question here, one piece was missing. look at this line here
leaving her with .
there should be a number between the "with" and the "."

Answer 19

one sec.

Answer 20

leaving her with $100?
leaving her with $1?
leaving her with 1 cent?

Answer 21

oh i see... leaving her with $4

Answer 22

oh, so it must be 8 + 4?

Answer 23

yes,