You are a member of your local movie theater's club. Everytime you see a movie at the theater, you earn 2 advantage points. When you earn a 100 points, you get a free movie pass. Currently, you have 40 advantage points.
1. Write an equation to model the number of movies m you have to watch before you earn a free movie pass.
2. Solve the equation. Show work please.
trying to help my son and i'm feeling a litte dumb

Question

You are a member of your local movie theater's club. Everytime you see a movie at the theater, you earn 2 advantage points. When you earn a 100 points, you get a free movie pass. Currently, you have 40 advantage points.
1. Write an equation to model the number of movies m you have to watch before you earn a free movie pass.
2. Solve the equation. Show work please.
trying to help my son and i'm feeling a litte dumb

anonymous · Answer

simple question to set up
100pt=free pass
2pt per movie
current pt =40
Let m= the movie
equation would be
40 + 2m = 100

i believe you would know the rest but i'll do the rest for you, just in case
40+2m=100
subtract 40 on both side
2m=60
then divid 2 on both side
m=30

anonymous · Answer

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