Question

Maya spent her allowence on playing an arcade game a few times and riding the Ferris wheel more than once. Write about what additional information you would need to create a two-variable equation for the senario. what kind of peoblem could you solve with your equation?

Answer 1

We need to know how much costs each arcade gameplay, and each ferri wheel ride.

Also, we need to know how much she spent in total and the total times that she played arcade games and rode the ferri wheel, together.

For example, if each time he plays arcade games it costs $5

and each ferri wheel rides costs $6

She spent a total of $100

She did both game attractions a total of 10 times

Let assume:

x = number of times he plays arcade games

y= number of ferri wheel rides

5x+6y= 100

x+y = 10

With this system of equations we can calculate the number of times that she played arcade games (x) and the number of rides on the ferri wheel (y)