Question

8 friends go to the movies. Tickets cost $12 and each person buys popcorn. They spend $156 altogether. Write and solve an equation to find the cost of one p, popcorn. Be sure to include the equation as part of your answer.

Answer 1

Explanation:

So the total of the tickets would be $12*8 = $96

Now to find the popcorn we need to substract the price of the tickets from the total price: $156 - $96 = $60

The question tells us that all 8 of the friends took popcorn, so we can simply divide by 8: $60/8 = $7.50

The equation could be something like:

1 popcorn = (total price - total price of tickets)/ number of people who take popcorn

All of these could be represented by letters such as x, y, z, w, etc...

Is this the kind of formula you were required to write?