The regular price of a child's entry ticket to a water park is $9 less than that for an adult's. The park offers half off of all entry tickets during the off-peak season. The Sandlers paid a total of $132 for 1 adult ticket and 4 child's tickets to the water park during the off-peak season. The following equation represents this situation, where x represents the regular price of an adult ticket.

132 = x + 2(x - 9)

What is the regular price of a child's ticket?

Question

The regular price of a child's entry ticket to a water park is $9 less than that for an adult's. The park offers half off of all entry tickets during the off-peak season. The Sandlers paid a total of $132 for 1 adult ticket and 4 child's tickets to the water park during the off-peak season. The following equation represents this situation, where x represents the regular price of an adult ticket.

132 = x + 2(x - 9)

What is the regular price of a child's ticket?

anonymous · Answer

Start by distributing 2 over to x and -9

anonymous · Answer

When you combine like terms, you get x=50

anonymous · Answer

that has to be wrong because thats not one of the multiple choices..

anonymous · Answer

the choices are. 
 $60 

 $57 

 $51 

 $42

anonymous · Answer

From the equation, that's what you get. Did you write the equation?

anonymous · Answer

This would be the correct equation: 132 = 1/2x + 2(x - 9). When you solve it, you get x=60