General admission tickets to the fair cost $3.50 per person. ride passes cost an additional $5.50 per person. parking costs $6 for the family. the total costs for ride passes and parking was $51. how many people in the family attended the fair.

5

members of the family attended the fair.

Explanation:

Form and solve an equation To do so, define the variable first.

You can usually choose the variable to be what we are asked to find.

Let the number of people in the family be

x

.

The amount paid by

each person

(

x

)

for admission and ride passes was

$

3.50

+

$

5.50

=

$

9.00

Only one payment of

$

6

was made by the family.

The total amount spent was

$

9

×

x

+

$

6

The total amount spent for the family was

$

51

There are two different ways of writing the same information.

They must be equal to each other:

9

x

+

6

=

51

9

x

=

51

−

6

9

x

=

45

x

=

5

5

members of the family attended the fair.

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)