Question

The St. James Theater is one of the largest theaters in New York City, with a seating capacity of 1600. They sell two different types of tickets, pre-sale and at-the-door. This combination of seats can be represented by the equation x + y = 1600. Choose the graph that represents the possible combinations of seat sales.

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

Have you leaned about graphing linear equations?

Answer 4

$$y=mx+b$$

Answer 5

@BlondeGirl Are you still there??? I don't have much time.

Answer 6

yes sorry

Answer 7

np :)

Answer 8

i have but i don't get it

Answer 9

We draw two lines: one straight left and right and the other up and down

Answer 10

and??

Answer 11

okay

Answer 12

Label the lines "x" and "y"

Answer 13

okay

Answer 14

Positive is to the right and up that's why the letters go there and not like you did, but that was a good try :)

Answer 15

Now comes the math: we need to take the given equation $$x + y = 1600$$ and put it in the y-intercept form $$y=mx+b$$ can you please try that?

Answer 16

Y= X - 1600?

Answer 17

Nice try but how did you get that?

Answer 18

idk lol

Answer 19

Algebraically you need to use the "subtraction property of equality" and subtract x from both sides.

Answer 20

ohh so y=1600-x?

Answer 21

Nice job.

Answer 22

Now put in the y-intercept form please.

Answer 23

how