Question

The attendance at the 2012 Lollapalooza Festival was about 35,000 more than twice

the attendance at Bonnaroo that year. The total number of people attending those
festivals was about 290,000. How many people went to each event?
people went to Bonnaroo.
people went to Lollapalooza.

Answer 1

You can write an expression for this: 290,000 = (2x+35000) + x. So simplify: 290,000 = 3x + 35000... 255,000 = 3x. So x is equal to 85,000 which is equal to the attendance of Bonnaroo. Plugin this into the 2x + 35000 equation and the attendance at Lollapalooza is 205,000.