Ali is planning a cookout for family and friends. There will be 24 people at her cookout. 1. Ali is renting tables for the cookout and wants to seat an equal number of people at each table. She needs to decide how many tables to get. How could she arrange the seating so that a reasonable and equal number of people sit at each table? Explain.

The students at jefferson middle school are raising money for a charity by selling t-shirts and hats. the number of t-shirts sold was 3 times the number of hats. the profit was $5 for each t-shirt sold and $2.50 for each hat sold. the students raised $840 for the charity. they used the system below to analyze their success and found the solution to be (144, 48). 5x+2.50y=840 x=3y how much did they earn from t-shirt sales?