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Equations in Real Life Scenarios

Practice solving systems of equations with real-life scenarios involving ticket sales, shopping, decorations, and more. Improve your math skills with these practical problems.

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Equations in Real Life Scenarios

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  1. Thursday, February 7, 2019 Learningtargets: • Set-up and solve a system of equations to represent a scenario. Warm-up:Compare how you set up #3 with your group.

  2. 1. You are selling tickets for a high school basketball game. Student tickets cost $3 and general admission tickets cost $5. You sell 350 tickets and collect $1450. How many of each type of ticket did you sell? Let x = cost of a student ticket Let y = cost of the general admission ticket

  3. 2. Missy Elliot loves to shop at Neiman Marcus. Last Saturday she bought pants and shirts for her new video. Each shirt cost $125 and each pair of pants cost $225. She came home with 26 items and spent exactly $4950. How many pants and shirts did Missy buy? Let x = cost of pants Let y = cost of a shirt

  4. 3. You are in charge of decorating the gym for the Homecoming dance. You purchased 6 bags of balloons and 5 bags of large sparkling hanging stars all for $19.20. You soon realized that this was not enough to decorate the entire gym. On your second trip to the store, you bought 8 bags of balloons and 2 bags of large sparkling hanging stars all for $15.80. What was the price for each item? Let x = cost of a bag of balloons Let y = cost of stars

  5. 4. Best Buy had a sale on DVD’s and CD’s for Labor Day weekend. Katie bought 2 CD’s and 3 DVD’s and spent $134. Emily bought 1 CD and 5 DVD’s and spent $179. How much does each CD and DVD cost? Let x = cost of a CD Let y = cost of a DVD

  6. 5. Casey orders 3 pizza and 2 orders of breadsticks for a total of $29.50. Rachel orders 2 pizzas and 3 orders of breadsticks for a total of $23. How much does 1 pizza cost. Let x = cost of a pizza Let y = cost of an order of breadsticks

  7. 6. Edgar has $5.70 in nickels and quarters in his piggy bank. There are a total of 30 coins in the bank. How many of each does he have. Let x = # of nickels Let y = # of quarters

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