To skate at Roller Heaven, each person must pay a membership fee (m) and a fee for each session (f). Art attended five sessions and paid $25 in all. Later, when he had attended 10 sessions, he paid $40 in all. How much is the membership fee and how much are the sessions.
Write a system of two equations with the variables m and f in each to represent this problem
do i use y=mx+b?

Question

To skate at Roller Heaven, each person must pay a membership fee (m) and a fee for each session (f). Art attended five sessions and paid $25 in all. Later, when he had attended 10 sessions, he paid $40 in all. How much is the membership fee and how much are the sessions.
Write a system of two equations with the variables m and f in each to represent this problem
 do i use y=mx+b?

anonymous · Answer

Set up a system of equations.  The membership fee is m and the fee per session is f.

Your first equation could be:  25 = m + 5f
Your second equation could be:  40 = m + 10f

Solving this system will give you the solution.

anonymous · Answer

would i use addition,subtraction, or multiplication  to solve the problem?

anonymous · Answer

Probably substitution is best.  For example, isolate the 'm' variable in the first equation to obtain m = 25 - 5f.  Then substitute this value of m into the second equation so your second equation becomes:  40 = (25 - 5f) + 10f.  This will give you f, then you can solve for m using that value.

anonymous · Answer

ok i gte it thank you for the help