Question

You sell instruments at a Caribbean music festival. You earn $326 by selling 12 sets of maracas, 6 sets of claves, and x

x
djembe drums. Write an equation you can use to find the number of djembe drums you sold.

Answer 1

From the given photograph in the problem above, the cost of each macaras is $14, each set of clave cost $5. Lastly, each djembe drum costs $16. If we let x be the number of djembe drum sold, our equation would be,
326 = 12(14) + 6(5) + x(16)
Simplifying the right side of the equation,
326 = 198 + 16x