Question

There is $7 entrance fee and it costs $1.25 for every minute your on a trampoline.Your total was $43.25, write an equation to determine the number of minutes you were on the trampoline

Answer 1

7 +1.25m = 43.25

Explanation:

Let m represent the number of minutes on the trampoline. Then the charge (in dollars) for minutes you're on it is 1.25m. The entrance fee is added to that to give the total charges:

7 + 1.25m = 43.25