Twenty-five members of the eighth grade class at Park Center Middle School are going to a museum and then to lunch. Each student must pay an entrance fee to the museum and $7.25 for lunch. The total cost for the trip is $443.75. What is the entrance fee for one student?
A. $10.50
B. $17.46
C. $17.75
D. $61.21

Question

Twenty-five members of the eighth grade class at Park Center Middle School are going to a museum and then to lunch. Each student must pay an entrance fee to the museum and $7.25 for lunch. The total cost for the trip is $443.75. What is the entrance fee for one student?
  A. $10.50 	
  B. $17.46 	
  C. $17.75 	
  D. $61.21

anonymous · Answer

We can set up an equation where x is the price for one student.
25x+181.25=443.75
25x because there are 25 students. 181.25 is the cost of lunch for all the students, and 443.75 is the total.
We then subtract 181.25 from both sides and get 25x=262.5
We get x alone by dividing both sides by 25. x=10.5
The entrance price for an individual student is $10.50

anonymous · Answer

So you were suppose to find the cost of the lunch first then do the equation! Thats where I was messing up lol