Question

It costs $5.25 to rent bowling shoes. Each game costs $3.00. You have $26.25. How many games can you bowl?

Answer 1

You can bowl 7 games.

Explanation:

To begin, you need shoes.

-$5.25

So, we would do $26.25 minus the amount for shoes $5.25

$26.25-$5.25 = $21

You now have $21 to spend on bowling the games. Since it is $3 each game, we can do the equation $21 = $3x. We can do this becuase you have $21 to spend and each game costs $3. So we can put x for how many games and 3 as the price of each game. Now, we simplify to get x alone. This will be how many games you can bowl.

21 = 3x

Divide by 3 on both sides

7 = x

So, you can bowl 7 games.

Answer 2

First lets write an equation to help us solve this.

26.25=3x+5.25

x=7

26.25 - 5.25 = 21.

21/3 = 7.