Question

The cost is $10 for SUV's and $5 for cars. Twenty-five percent of the money raised goes to the football team, thirty percent goes to the soccer team and the remaining percentage goes toward the basketball team. Write an expression to represent how much the soccer team and football team will receive.''

Answer 1

Let's start with calculating how much money is raised in total:

- Let's assume there are x SUVs and y cars.

- The cost for one SUV is $10 and the cost for one car is $5.

- Therefore, the total cost for all SUVs is 10x and the total cost for all cars is 5y.

- The total cost is the sum of these: 10x + 5y.

Now we need to calculate how much money each team will get. We know that:

- 25% of the money goes to the football team. This can be written as 0.25(10x + 5y) or 2.5x + 1.25y.

- 30% of the money goes to the soccer team. This can be written as 0.3(10x + 5y) or 3x + 1.5y.

- The remaining percent goes to the basketball team. This is 100% - 25% - 30%, which is 45%. This can be written as 0.45(10x + 5y) or 4.5x + 2.25y.

Therefore, the expression to represent how much the soccer team and football team will receive is:

2.5x + 1.25y + 3x + 1.5y = 5.5x + 2.75y