Question

Write a story or situation that can be represented by the given equation.

4a+5=12a−11

Answer 1

Mia's tickets cost $5 to get to the game and $4 each for a tickets

Andrew gets an $11 discount in the taxi but pays $12 each for a tickets

What number of tickets , a , costs Mia and Andrew the same?

Answer 2

Maria is a fan of cookie packages, so she has made the calculations and discovered that 4 packages of cookies plus 5 dollars are equivalent to the price of 12 packages of cookies minus 11 dollars.

`a` represents the price of a package of cookies,

so we have the 4 packages of cookies plus 5 dollars on one side of the equation

`4a+5`

and on the other side of the equation the 12 packages of cookies minus 11 dollars

`12a-11`

and if both sides are equivalent we get:

`4a+5=12a-11`