Question

As the student council treasurer, you prepare the budget for your class rafting trip. Each large raft

costs $100 to rent and each small raft costs $40 to rent. You have $1,600 to spend. Write and
solve a linear equation to find the number of small rafts you can rent if you rent 12 large rafts.

Answer 1

10 small rafts

Explanation:

(1600- 1200) / 40 = 10

1600- 1200 = 400

400 / 40 = 10

12 large rafts costs $1200 so subtract that amount from you budget. If you do that you will have $400 left. So I divided $400 by the amount of money each small raft cost whitch was $40 per small raft so i got the quotient of 10.

Sorry if i worded that weirdly but you get the point.

P.s sorry if it isn't comlety correct but i did my best so... ya