Question

Visitors to a carnival can buy an unlimited-ride pass for $50 or an entrance-only pass for $20. In one day, 282 passes were sold for a total of $10,680. How many unlimited-ride passes were sold?

Answer 1

How do I set up the two equations from the word problem?

Answer 2

I know how to solve it after that just dunno how to set the two equations up :/

Answer 3

Call the number of unlimited passes 'u' and the number of entry passes 'e'. WE then have \[u+e=288\] and \[50u+20e=10680\]

Answer 4

282*

Answer 5

Ok, thanks! :)