Question

Group discounted lift tickets were $14 for those paying with cash and $15 for those

paying with a credit card. The total paid by the group was $177.00. Three times as many
people paid with a credit card as those who paid with cash. How many people paid with
cash?
PLEASE ANSWER WITH AN EXPLANATION

Answer 1

3 people

Explanation:

Let "x" represent the number of people who payed with cash

Let "y" represent the number of people who payed with credit card

14x +15y = 177 ---------1

3x =y--------- 2

solving simultaneously,

put eqn 2 into eqn 1

14x + 15 (3x) = 177

14x + 45x = 177

59x = 177

x=3

From eqn 2 , y = 3 x

y = 3 (3)

y=9

therefore the number of people who paid with cash were 3.