Question

Omar, Amare, and Jack paid a total of $68.25 for dinner and tickets to a concert. The concert

tickets cost $9.75 each. If the 3 friends split the dinner bill equally, how much did each friend
spend on dinner?
Use the drop-down menus to describe how to determine the cost of dinner for each friend
algebraically and arithmetically. Click the arrows to choose an answer from each menu.
To determine the solution arithmetically in two steps, first Choose...
and
then choose...
solve the equation
To determine the solution algebraically, set up and
Each friend paid Choose... for dinner.
Choose...

Answer 1

Answer: $13

Explanation:

To determine the solution arithmetically in two steps, first divide 68.25 by 3 and then subtract 9.75 from the result. To determine the solution algebraically, set up and solve the equation 3(x+9.75)=68.25. Each friend paid $13 for dinner.