Question

Games-R-Us offers a video game rental program with a monthly fee of $10 plus $2 per game rental. Games2Go charges a $2 monthly fee plus $4 per game. Given the same to stores Games-R-Us and Games2Go, how many games would you have to rent from each company to have your total cost be the same amount?

Answer 1

4 games

Explanation:

Let the number of games rented from both be represented by: g

For Games - R - Us

Games-R-Us offers a video game rental program with a monthly fee of $10 plus $2 per game rental.

$10 + $2 × g

= 10 + 2g

For Games2Go

Games2Go charges a $2 monthly fee plus $4 per game.

$2 + $4 × g

= 2 + 4g

Hence,

Games-R-Us = Games2Go

10 + 2g = 2 + 4g

Collect like terms

10 - 2 = 4g - 2g

8 = 2g

g = 8/2

g = 4 games

Therefore, number of games you would have to rent from each company to have your total cost be the same amount is 4 games