Question

Suppose you are having a birthday party at the local bowling alley. You are trying to figure out how many people you can afford to invite.

You can spend a maximum of $500 on your party. The table below represents the costs for each bowling alley.
|bowl/person
Bowling A $10.50
Bowling B $15.00

3. Set up an equation that shows the relationship between the number of guests and the price per bowler for each bowling alley.
2. Calculate how many guests you will be able to invite to your party for each bowling alley.

Answer 1

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1. Let x be the number of guests you can invite to the party.

For Bowling A:
10.50x = 500

For Bowling B:
15x = 500

2. Solve for x:
For Bowling A:
x = 500 / 10.50 = 47.62

Since you cannot invite a fraction of a person, you can invite a maximum of 47 people to Bowling A.

For Bowling B:
x = 500 / 15 = 33.33

Again, since you cannot invite a fraction of a person, you can invite a maximum of 33 people to Bowling B.