A canoe rental company charges $10 per hour for a canoe. Each person in the canoe is required to wear a life vest. The company charges a flat rate of $3 per life vest. If two people rented a canoe for three hours, how much did they pay?

$29

$33

$36

$38

Question

A canoe rental company charges $10 per hour for a canoe. Each person in the canoe is required to wear a life vest. The company charges a flat rate of $3 per life vest. If two people rented a canoe for three hours, how much did they pay?

$29

$33

$36

$38

turingtest · Answer

how many life vests did they need?

anonymous · Answer

idk 2

anonymous · Answer

how many canoes did they need?

turingtest · Answer

right, and if each vest cost $3, how much did they spend on vests?

anonymous · Answer

um, 1

anonymous · Answer

idk

turingtest · Answer

how can you spend $1 for 2 vests when each vest costs $3 ?
try to make sure things make sense.

♪chibiterasu · Answer

3(2) . . . where 3 is the cost and 2 is the number of vests.

♪chibiterasu · Answer

So multiply those and we get . . . ?

anonymous · Answer

we get 9

anonymous · Answer

sorery 6

♪chibiterasu · Answer

Yep, there we go.

♪chibiterasu · Answer

Now it says 10 per hour, so we can use 10x. How many hours were they canoeing for?

♪chibiterasu · Answer

x will be the replaced by the number of hours . . .

anonymous · Answer

36 ?                      ?????

♪chibiterasu · Answer

The question indicates how many hours they canoed for, which is 3. So now we have 10(3), so we put that together with the previous solution and we have:

[10(3)] + 6 = c

c is the cost.

♪chibiterasu · Answer

So before adding we need to multiply 10(3), which is . . . ?