Question

A group of collage students are going to a lake house for the weekend and plan on renting small cars(s) and large(l) cars to make the trip. Each car can hold 5 people and each large car 8 people. A total of 15 cars were rented which can hold 90 people altogether. Determine the number of large car and rental cars.

Answer 1

students would need to rent 5 small cars and 8 large cars

Answer 2

10 small, 5 large

Explanation:

if they were all small cars, 5x15 would be 75. there need to be 15 more spots, and each large can hold an extra 3. 15/3 is 5. so there are 10s and 5l