Question

Members of a baseball team raised $1128.75 to go to a tournament. They rented a bus

for $856.50 and budgeted $24.75 per player for meals. Write and solve an equation
which can be used to determine x, the number of players the team can bring to the
tournament.

Answer 1

To determine the number of players the team can bring to the tournament, subtract the cost of the bus rental from the total funds raised and divide the remaining amount by the budgeted amount per player for meals.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the number of players the team can bring to the tournament, we need to subtract the cost of the bus rental from the total funds raised and divide the remaining amount by the budgeted amount per player for meals. Let's represent the number of players as x. The equation would be:

1128.75 - 856.50 = 24.75x

To solve this equation, we subtract 856.50 from 1128.75 to get 272.25. Then, we divide 272.25 by 24.75 to find x, the number of players the team can bring.