Question

a plane ticket costs b dollars for an adult and d dollars for a child. Find the total cost of 5 adult tickets and 3 child tickets.

Answer 1

Well, how much money is an adult ticket?

Answer 2

it doesn't say, that's really all the information the problem gives me. . .

Answer 3

If this is the case, then just use the variable as your answer.

Answer 4

b and d would be the answer pretty much then?

Answer 5

So, if there is 5 AT you want to buy, and each cost b dollars, then how much money will you spend on ATs?

Answer 6

5b

Answer 7

right?

Answer 8

Yes, correct, and how much would you spend on child tickets?

Answer 9

5d

Answer 10

How much does each child ticket cost though?

Answer 11

ill put the problem again.

a plane ticket costs b dollars for an adult and d dollars for a child. Find the total cost of 5 adult tickets and 3 child tickets.

so out of the examples you put there all i get to understand now is 5b and 3d

Answer 12

there's no price, just amount of adults/children and the variables

Answer 13

thats right @ryuu just 5b+3d

Answer 14

alrighty! :)!

Answer 15

Yes, if there is no more information, then most likely, C(cost) is going to be 5b + 3d

Answer 16

thanks guys :)

Answer 17

No prob

Answer 18

fan me mcgee lol

Answer 19

=P

Answer 20

haha, but you haven't helped me yet.. :)

Answer 21

pfft, i wanna send you a msg! XD

Answer 22

If you need any help, I am open for tutoring :)

Answer 23

baldy all you did was confirm the answer :P

Answer 24

that'd really help, i need some more help with like 5 more word problems or a bit more.. no more than 10 though, xD

Answer 25

Ok lol I can help you here free and if you want I can tutor you every week for a certain amount of time(20$/hour) and I could give you some practice problems and help you understand them, etc. :)

Answer 26

@chandhooguy are you a teacher or something?

Answer 27

nah i barely use the site 3 times a week the most, i just need help on a few more cause the word problems feel tricky to me and thats what i have problems with, asides that my packet will be finished after that, :P

Answer 28

ryuu whats the next question

Answer 29

@baldymcgee6 Yes

Answer 30

Ok ryuu, just a suggestion. I can still help though :)

Answer 31

the product of two numbers is 13. One number is k, what is the other number?

I came down to the equation of k + ? = 13

Answer 32

thanks a lot =)

Answer 33

Remember, product means Multiplication

Answer 34

remember product is when you multiply not add

Answer 35

Ohh!! >_< i keep forgetting.

Answer 36

then.. k * ? = 13 >?

Answer 37

so its k*x = 13

Answer 38

K? = 13
Isolate K

Answer 39

yeah, instead of using question marks, in math we typically use variables

Answer 40

alright, so.. divide x to both sides?

Answer 41

Yes!

Answer 42

k * x/x = 13/x > ?

Answer 43

right

Answer 44

but what is x/x ?

Answer 45

=> k = 13/x <=?

Answer 46

Well, you want to isolate x, not k, so you want x = ...

Answer 47

oh.

Answer 48

So how do you isolate ONLY x?

Answer 49

so then.. i would have to divide k and not x? lol

Answer 50

Yep!

Answer 51

alrighty got it down now. =)

Answer 52

Ok I will be back in 1/2 hour, so hang on or ask bald till then :)

Answer 53

Lol, okay. He seems busy though =P

Answer 54

The Police and Kenny Chesney had the two top-grossing North American concert tours in 2007, together generating $204.3million in ticket sales. If Kenny Chesney took in $62.1million leess than The Police, how much did each tour generate?

Answer 55

i used logic on this but i may be way off.. -->(total) 204.3 - 62.1(kenny chesney)=
142.2 / 2 = (Chesney)>71.1 + 62.1 =(The Police) $133.2million. +71.1 = 204.3(Total)

The Police: $133.2million

Kenny Chesney: $71.1million


Total: $204.3million

Answer 56

No no, Chesney did not take 62.1 million. We don't know how much he took, but we do know that he took 62.1 million LESS THAN the Police. How you would solve this problem would be by setting up 2 variables, x being how much Chesney got and y being the amount the Police got.So, you know that in all, 204.3 million was sold, and Chesney sold 62.1 million less than the Police. The formula would be...
x + y = 204,300,000 .... This is just saying that what they both got is equal to 204.3 million
x = y - 62,100,000 ... This is just saying that Chesney got exactly how much the Police got, MINUS 62.1 million
Right now, this all should make sense. Just plugin equation 2 into equation 1, and see what you get. If you have any doubts, tell me an I will be glad to answer.

Answer 57

Excuse my last post. If you do it either way, you get the same answer, but my way is just the 'Algebraic' way of doing it. Sorry about that.