1. The county fair charges $1.25 per ticket for the rides. Jermaine bought 25 tickets for the rides and spent a total of $43.75 at the fair. Jermaine spent his money only on ride tickets and fair admission. The price of the fair admission is the same for everyone. Use y to represent the total cost and x to represent the number of ride tickets.
(a) Define your variables.
(b) Write a linear equation that can be used to determine the cost for anyone who only pays for ride tickets and fair admission.
(c) Explain your answer to Part 1b.

Question

1.	The county fair charges $1.25 per ticket for the rides. Jermaine bought 25 tickets for the rides and spent a total of $43.75 at the fair. Jermaine spent his money only on ride tickets and fair admission. The price of the fair admission is the same for everyone. Use y to represent the total cost and x to represent the number of ride tickets.
(a)	Define your variables.
(b)	Write a linear equation that can be used to determine the cost for anyone who only pays for ride tickets and fair admission.
(c)	Explain your answer to Part 1b.

mxddi3 · Answer

well, part A is already done for you because the question says "y represents the total cost and x is the number of rides"

Mercury · Answer

b) the total price a person pays is their flat admission fee + (price per ride)(number of rides). use this logic to create an equation, using numbers/variables from the problem.

for part c, you can simply explain how the equation works (it finds the total cost of the rides by multiplying price per ride * number of rides, then adds on the admission fee)