Question

On a certain flight, p travelers paid full price for their ticket and one-fourth of that paid a discount price. If the discount price is r dollars and the full price is twice as much, which of the following shows the amount of revenue that the flight generated?

Answer 1

so you know the half-price is r dollars. that means the full price is 2r. Now because p people paid full price, the revenue from full payers is 2pr.

Answer 2

so far so good?

Answer 3

yes, thanks!

Answer 4

okay now for the discount payers. the number of people who paid discount price is one-fourth of p or p/4. multiply that by the discount price to get pr/4

Answer 5

add the two to get that revenue:\[2pr+ \frac{ pr }{ 4 }\]

Answer 6

thanks a lot.

Answer 7

your welcome