Question

Piper and her children went into a movie theater and she bought $59.50

bags of popcorn and candies. Each bag of popcorn costs $8.50 and each candy costs
$4.25. She bought 8 more candies than bags of popcorn. Graphically solve a system
of equations in order to determine the number of bags of popcorn, x, and the number
of candies, y, that Piper bought.

Answer 1

6 candy boxes

Step-by-step explanation :

Since they both bought their own popcorn that means they both spent $8 on popcorn making that a total of $16. Therefore we now only need to find one variable which is the number of candy boxes that they bought in order to reach the $25 total that they spent. This variable can be represented as x in the following algebraic equation.

(2*8) + 1.50x = 25

16 + 1.50x = 25 ... subtract 16 from both sides

1.50x = 9 ... divide both sides by 1.50

x = 6

Finally, we can see that Billy and Tommy bought a total of 6 candy boxes.

Answer 2

This is the answer on Delta Math

Explanation: