Question

every week roger pays for a movie ticket and a soda out of his allowance. last week, roger's allowance was aa dollars. the cost of his movie ticket was 20\ % of the difference between aa and the cost of his soda, while the cost of his soda was 5\%5% of the difference between aa and the cost of his movie ticket. to the nearest whole percent, what fraction of aa did roger pay for his movie ticket and soda?

Answer 1

23%

Explanation:

We can create two equations:

\[m = \frac{1}{5}(A - s)\]\[s = \frac{1}{20}(A - m)\]

Substituting we get:

\[m = \frac{1}{5}(A - \frac{1}{20}(A - m))\]which yields:

\[m = \frac{19}{99}A\]

Now we can find s and we get:

\[s = \frac{4}{99}A\]

Since we want to find what fraction of $A$ did Roger pay for his movie ticket and soda, we add $m$ and $s$ to get:

\[\frac{19}{99}A + \frac{4}{99}A \implies \boxed{\text{(D)}\ 23\%}\]