30 POINTS !!!
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.

Respuesta :

Each ticket costs $1.25

Jermaine bought 25 of them, which costs 25 x 1.25

25 x 1.25 = 31.25

He spent a total of $43.75 from the tickets and price of admission

we know the tickets cost 31.25, so the admission cost was 43.75 - 31.25

43.75 - 31.25 = $12.5

b) y = 1.25x + 12.5

Where y is the total cost, 1.25 is the price of each ticket, x is how many tickets a person bought, and 12.5 is the admission fee.

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