Question

The Country Buffet restaurant has tables that seat 6 people and booths that can seat 4 people. The restaurant has 38 seating units for seating a total of 188 people. Write a system of equations and use it to find the number of tables and the number of booths that are at the restaurant?

Using the variables that you defined in question three, write a system of equations to represent this situation.

Answer 1

The system of equations will be as following below!

6t + 4b = 188
t + b = 38

This is because it can have a total of 188 people in the place with 38 total seating units. Though it is not in the question, quarantine has be bored, so I’ll answer how many booths and tables there are too.

I’ll use substitution to solve this.

t = 38 - b

6(38 - b) + 4b = 188

228 - 6b + 4b = 188

-2b = -40

b = 20

t + 20 = 38

t = 18

So there are 20 booths and 18 tables in the Country Buffet!