Question

You buy 4 balloons and 2 banners for $8. Your friend buys 6 balloons and 1 banner for $8.

Each balloon costs ?$

and each banner costs ?$

Answer 1

Each balloon costs $1

Each banner costs $2

Explanation:

First of all, let's write down the equation from this problem.

Let "y" be the cost of the ballon, and let "x" be the cost of a banner. Then the following is true from the question...

4y + 2x = 8

6y + x = 8

Now since both of them are equal to 8 both of them are equal to each other, and so we can get the following equation...

4y + 2x = 6y + x

2x - x = 6y - 4y

x = 2y

Now if we substitute 2y instead of x in one of the previous equations we will obtain...

6y + x = 8

6y + 2y = 8

8y = 8

y = 1

From the equation x = 2y we know that...

x = 2y

x = 2(1)

x = 2