Your school just had their first school play for the year. Student tickets were $5 and adult tickets were
$8. The drama club sold a total of
175 tickets and made $1250. How many of each ticket were sold?
A test has twenty questions worth
100 points. The test consists of true/false questions worth 3 points each and multiple choice questions worth 11 points each. How many true/false and multiple choice questions are on the test?
True/False Questions: 15
Multiple Choice Questions: 5
The equations 5x + 2y = 48 and 3x +
2y = 32 represent the money collected from school concert tickets sales during two class periods. If x represents the cost for each adult ticket and y represents the cost for each student ticket, what is the cost for a adult and student ticket?
A plane flies 1200 mi. from Orlando to New York in 2 hr. with a tailwind.
The return flight against the same wind takes 2.5 hr. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
Tailwind
Headwind
Time
2
2.5
Rate
(X+Y)
(X-Y)
Distance
1200
1200
Plane Speed is 540 m.p.h
Wind Speed is 60 m.p.h