A school luncheon made $750. Adult tickets cost $11 each and child tickets cost $8each. The number of children was halfthe number of adults. How many of each ticket were sold?State both the unknown variable/expression, write the equation, and write your answer in a complete sentence.

Pete is paid 50 cents a day to take out the trash and feed the dog . How much will he earn in four weeks?

Micah spent half of his money and an additional $324 on a television. Then he spent 1/6 of his remaining money and an additional $55 on a DVD player. Then he spent 0.4 of his remaining money and an additional $18 on a music player. If he has $168 left, how much was the television?

Over the weekend, you went to the shoe store.  You bought a pair of shoes for $50 and some pairs of socks for $3 each.  You spent a total of $86. Set up an equation to represent the situation and find the total amount of pairs of socks you bought.

Bautista and Kelsi are running a team relay race. Kelsi runs twice as far as Bautista. Together they run 24 miles. How far did each person run? Bautista ran Kelsi ran miles. miles.

At a bagel shop each bagel sells for $2.00.  It costs $0.75 to make each bagel and the shop has fixed costs of $600 per day.  One day the store made a profit of $320.  How many bagels did the store make and sell that day?     Calculate the answer by read surrounding text.   Round to the nearest whole number of bagels.

Rhonda purchased a flat screen tv by writing a check for $372.60. If the sales tax where she lives is 8%, what is the original price of the TV before sales tax? What does variable stand for The equation to the problem Solution

A rookie baseball player had a clause in his contract that paid him $175,000 a year plus $200 per hit. His salary last season was $199,000. Write an equation and explain what the variable represents in this question.

Franklin treated his sister to lunch while visiting her in Columbia. Their lunch cost $75, and the sales tax in Columbia is 8%. If Franklin left a 20% tip on the $75, write an equation and answer the question, how much in total did he pay?

Asia has a job selling cars. She is paid $2,000 per month. She also gets paid $200 for each car she sells. Last month, Asia earned a total of $5,000. Write an equation that can be solved to determine how many cars, n, Asia sold last month.