Word Problems - Systems

^{Kim loves to shop at American Eagle. Last Saturday she bought}

^{pants and shirts for her vacation. Each shirt cost $35 and each pair}

^{pants cost $70. She came home with 7 items and spent exactly}

^{$315. How many pants and shirts did Kim buy?}

• 1 shirt, 4 pairs of pants

• 3 shirts 2 pairs of pants

• 5 shirts, 2 pairs of pants

• 2 shirts, 5 pairs of pants

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

^{You are in charge of decorating the gym for the Homecoming}

^{Dance. You purchased 6 bags of balloons and 5 bags of sparkling}

^{hanging stars all for $19.20. You soon realized that this was not}

^{enough to decorate the entire gym. On your second trip to the}

^{store, you bought 8 bags of balloons and 2 bags of large}

^{sparkling hanging stars all for $15.80. What was the price for each}

^item?

• balloons $2.00, stars $1.56

• balloons, $1.45, stars $2.10

• balloons $1.00 stars $3.90

• balloons $1.75, $.90

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

Yellowstone National Park is a popular field trip destination. The senior class of High School A and the senior class of High School B are all planning on going there. High School A rented and filled 8 vans and 3 buses with 208 students. High School B rented and filled 14 vans and 12 buses with 580 students. Each van and each bus carried the same number of students. How many students were in each van, and how many in each bus?

• Van: 14, Bus: 32

• Van: 20, Bus: 16

• Van: 32, Bus: 14

• Van: 20, Bus: 16

• Van: 16, Bus: 20

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

The school that Danielle is going to is selling tickets to a play. On the first day the school sold 4 senior citizen tickets and 8 child tickets for a total of $80. On the second day, they sold $76 worth of tickets, which included 5 senior citizen tickets and 4 child tickets. What was the cost of the senior citizen ticket and the child ticket?

• Senior Citizen: $4 Child: $14

• Senior Citizen: $12 Child: $4

• Senior Citizen: $10 Child: $5

• Senior Citizen: $8 Child: $9

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

Homer sells tickets for admission to your school play and collects a total of $104. Admission prices are $6 for adults and $4 for children. He sold 21 tickets total.

To solve, I graphed:

x + y = 21

6x + 4y = 104

I got an intersection point at (10,11). What does that mean in context of the problem?

• There are 10 adults and 11 children.

• There are 11 adults and 10 children.

• The adults are $10 and the children are $11.

• There are 104 adults and 21 children.

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

David is running a concession stand at a soccer game. He sells nachos and sodas. Nachos cost $1.50 each and sodas cost $0.50 each. At the end of the game, David made a total of $78.50 and sold a total of 87 nachos and sodas combined. 

• 35 nachos, 52 sodas
• 18 nachos, 69 sodas
• 52 nachos, 35 sodas
• 61 nachos, 26 sodas

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

Mr. Schaefer went to Wal-Mart and spent $131 on cat supplies. He walked out with 7 bags. Litter costs $28 a bag and cat food costs $15 a bag. How many bags of litter did he get?

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

You have gone to a fruit stand to get some fresh produce. You notice that the person in front of you gets 5 apples and 4 oranges for 10 dollars. You get 5 apples and 5 oranges for 11 dollars. What is the price of an orange?

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

You are running a concession stand at a basketball game. You are selling hot dogs and sodas. Each hot dog costs $1.50 and each soda costs $0.50. At the end of the night you made a total of $78.50. You sold a total of 87 hot dogs and sodas combined. How many hot dogs were sold?

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

You and a friend go to Tacos Galore for lunch. You order three soft tacos and three burritos and your total bill is $11.25. Your friend's bill is $10.00 for four soft tacos and two burritos. How much do burritos cost?

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C