Question

The science club is going on a field trip to the science museum. The club has at most $800 to spend on the trip. The bus for the trip costs $100, and meals at the museum cost $4.50 per student. If admission to the museum is $12 per student and $16 per adult, and there are six chaperones attending, how many students can go on the trip? Write inequality to represent the situation. do not solve the inequality. Defined the variable.

Answer 1

38 students

Explanation:

100+(16x6)=196

800-196=631

4.50+12=16.5

63/116.5=38.24

Answer 2

100+4.50(s)+12(s)+96 less than or equal to 800

`\leqslant`

s=students

Explanation:

they can spend up to 800 dollars OR LESS. They have a charge of 100 dollars for the bus, plus a charge of 4.50 per student for lunches, plus a charge of 12 dollars per student for admissions plus 16 dollars times 6 (96) for the chaperones. All of this gives us our inequality above.

I really hope this helps!

PS: the reason why the adults don't get their own variable is because it says to define the variable not variable(s). You also cannot group the adults with the students because the student costs and the adult costs are two totally seperate and different amounts. if you just used variable p for people it wouldn't work because you wouldn't know how many adults were required to pay adult admission.