Question

Dalton sells popcorn for $4 a bag and cans of juice for $1.25 a can. Today, his goal is to sell $500 worth of popcorn and juice. Write an equation that represents the problem in standard form. Let x represent the number of bags of popcorn Dalton sells and let y represent the number of cans of juice he sells. Enter your responses in the boxes.

Answer 1

x(4)+y(1.25)=500

Explanation:

x=popcorn bags and y=cans of juice

$ 4 is the price for popcorn bags and $1.25 for the cans of juice

so just multiply the price of each item by the number or in this case symbol, that equals the total of what is needed