Question

5 The cost of an adult's ticket into a theme park is $a.

The cost of a child's ticket into the same theme park is $c.
Write an expression for the total cost for each groun.

Answer 1

Total Cost (in dollars) = a + c

Explanation:

Algebra

When mathematics quantities are generalized into letters or variables, then we are dealing with algebra.

We are said the cost of an adult's ticket into a theme park is $a and a child's ticket costs $c. Since both quantities are unknown, we must treat them as variables and use the same logic procedure to solve the problem as if they were numbers.

The total cost for an adult and a child is the sum of both individual costs, thus

Total Cost (in dollars) = a + c