At a high school football game, admission is $5 for students and $10 for non-students. The school made $4,000 from admissions at the first game, which 500 people attended. How many students and non-students were at the game?

s + n
=
500
5s + 10n
= 4,000

Looking at the two equations, which method should you use to solve this system of equations?

Problems and applications q5 four roommates are planning to spend the weekend in their dorm room watching old movies, and they are debating how many to watch. here is their willingness to pay for each film: willingness to pay (dollars) shen antonio dmitri jake first film 10 9 8 3 second film 8 7 6 2 third film 6 5 4 1 fourth film 4 3 2 0 fifth film 2 1 0 0 within the dorm room, the showing of a movie a public good. if it costs $12 to rent a movie, the roommates should rent movies in order to maximize the total surplus. suppose the roommates choose to rent the optimal number of movies you just indicated and then split the cost of renting equally. this means that each roommate will pay $ .