Question

A group of college students are going to a lake house for the weekend and plan on renting small cars and large cars to make the trip. Each small car can hold 4 people and each large car can hold 6 people. The students rented twice as many large cars as small cars, which altogether can hold 48 people. Graphically solve a system of equations in order to determine the number of small cars rented, x,x, and the number of large cars rented, yy.

Answer 1

The students rented 3 small cars and 6 large cars.

Explanation:

Since a group of college students are going to a lake house for the weekend and plan on renting small cars and large cars to make the trip, and each small car can hold 4 people and each large car can hold 6 people, and the students rented twice as many large cars as small cars, which altogether can hold 48 people, to determine the number of small cars rented, X, and the number of large cars rented, Y, the following calculation must be performed:

4X + 6Y = 48

4x4 + 6x8 = 16 + 48 = 64

4x3 + 6x6 = 12 + 36 = 48

Thus, the students rented 3 small cars and 6 large cars.