Word Problems in Standard Form of Linear Equation

Jenny went to the sale at Kohl's last weekend.  
T-shirts were on sale for $15 each and hoodies were on sale for $20 each.  If she spent $150 total, write an equation to represent this situation.  

• 20x + 15 = y 
• 35x = y 
• 15x + 20y = 150 
• 150 - 20x = 15y 

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Would you write a linear equation to model the following situation in slope-intercept form or standard form? 
The cost for a health club membership is $20 per month plus an initial $49 membership fee. 

• Slope-Intercept Form
• Standard Form

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Would you write a linear equation to model the following situation in slope-intercept form or standard form? 
Mrs. Harris is going to the movies. She spends $10 per ticket and $5 per bucket of popcorn. She only wants to spend $50. 

• Slope-intercept
• Standard form

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Sam ordered 4 tacos and 5 enchiladas for lunch at the restaurant. His bill came to $10.80. Which equation matches the given situation?

• 4x + 3y = 8.10

• 4x + 5y = 10.80

• 4x - 5y = 10.80

• 4x + 10.80y = 5

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Easy Car Rental charges $8.50 an hour plus a rental fee of $25.50. Which equation represents the total charges for x hours?

• y = 8.5 + 25.5
• y = 25.5 + 8.5x
• y = 8.5 + 25.5x

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Which ordered pair could represent a y-intercept on a graph?

• (6, 0)
• (0, 4)
• (-1, 3)
• (2, 0)

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Write an linear equation to model the following:
You want to buy desserts, ice-cream is $2.50 per scoop and puppychow is $4 per bag and you want to spend $20. 

• y=2.50x+4
• 2.50x+4y=20
• y=4x+2.5

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You are selling drinks at the carnival to raise money. You sell lemonade for $2 per cup and orange drinks for $3 per cup. Your sales totaled $240. Let x be the number of cups of lemonade and y be the number of orange drinks.

Write an equation to represent the situation

• 2x - 3y = 240

• 3y - 2x = 240

• 2x + 3y = 240

• 2 + 3 = 240

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A 100-point test has x questions worth 2 points apiece and y questions worth 4 points apiece.

Which equation matches the situation?

• 2x + 4y = 100

• 100 + 2y = 4y

• x + y = 100

• y = 2x + 100

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 At a school play, children’s tickets cost $3 each and adult tickets cost $7 each. The total amount of money earned from ticket sales equals $210. Write a linear model that relates the number of children’s tickets sold to the number of adult tickets sold. Let x = the number of children’s tickets sold and y = the number of adult tickets sold

• y=10x+210
• 7x+3y=210
• y=7x+210
• 3x+7y=210

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