Question

A family of 5 comes to the amusement park. There are two adults and three children (under the age of 12). They qualify for a special family rate of$174.45.child's ticket always costs $11 less than an adult's ticket. How much is each adult ticket and how much is each child's ticket?
Define your variables. What is a variable you can use to represent the adult cost?
A variable to represent adult cost in the family plan: __________.
Write an expression to represent the cost of the child's ticket in terms of the adult ticket. Remember the child's ticket is $11 les

Answer 1

i just need help reviewing this

Answer 2

im gonna do a question similar to this with my tutor, i want to know how to do this one first

Answer 3

Let's start out by saying that x = cost of adult ticket. How much is child's ticket?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

What does the problem say about the child's ticket?

Answer 6

it cost 11$ less than an adults

Answer 7

If the adult ticket costs $25, what does the child's ticket cost?

Answer 8

14

Answer 9

14$

Answer 10

How did you get that?

Answer 11

u said the adults ticket is 25$ and the childs ticket is 11$ less than the adults

Answer 12

You got it by doing 25-11. So if the adult ticket costs x dollars, how much does the child's ticket cost?

Answer 13

Of course it would be x -11

Answer 14

x

Answer 15

x-11*

Answer 16

how woud i do this part
There are two adults and three children, and the total cost was $174.45. Write an equation representing the total cost for this family of five.

Answer 17

2x+3(x-11)=174.45