Question

Leonardo will pay $484 to three different credit cards: Expert Card, Passport, and US Speedy. He will pay four times as much to Expert Card as US Speedy since it has a higher balance. He also expects the Passport payment to be only 10% of the total of the other two payments. How much will Leonardo pay towards the Passport credit card balance?

Answer 1

Love this question :)

Answer 2

First, let set up some variables...
US Speedy = U
Expert = 4U
Passport = .10(U+4U) = .10(5U) = .50U

do you see where that all comes from in your word problems....

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

Great...

Now, 484 = U + 4U +.50U

solve for U - what do you get?

Answer 5

all u do is add the Us up right

Answer 6

yes add up U's; but then you must divide to get the term U with NO coefficien

Answer 7

ya so i got 88 right

Answer 8

absolutely correct....so lets go back to our variable set ups

so speedy =88
what is express = 4u =
what is passport .5U =

Answer 9

so what do i do divide 484 by 4? and then by .5

Answer 10

no wait thats not right

Answer 11

4U = 4(88) = ????

Answer 12

352

Answer 13

you are now just replacing the variable U by the number you calculated of 88

Answer 14

ooooo ok

Answer 15

so its 44?

Answer 16

right and right.....

Great job!!!!

Answer 17

thank you

Answer 18

uw