Standard Form from Word Problems

Faith was working admissions to the Heritage High school basketball game. It costs $5 for students (x) and $7 for adults (y). By Faith's calculation, the school made $500 dollars on ticket sales at the game. Write an equation that represents this scenario.

• 7x+5y=500

• y=7x+500

• 5x+7y=500

• y=500x+7

Dalyn is selling girl scout cookies. She sold 7 boxes of Thin Mints (x) and 12 boxes of Tagalongs (y). If she made $82 selling cookies, write an equation that represents the scenario.

• 7x+12y=82

• 12x+7y=82

• 7x+82y=7

• y=7x+82

Jackson sells 15 apples and 20 oranges and made $75. If oranges cost $1.50 per orange, how much did each apple cost?

• $2.63

• $2

• $1.50

• $3

Jamari makes money as an Influencer on social media. He gets $8 an ad for Instagram (x) and $10 an ad for Youtube (y). For his first royalty check, he made $72 . Write an equation to represent this scenario.

• 10x+8y=72

• 8x+10y=72

• 72x+8y=10

• 8x+72y=10

Madison streams Netflix for $10.99 a month and Spotify for $5.99 a month. If she spent $96.88 total and had Netflix for 5 months, how many months did she have spotify?

• 4 months

• 7 months

• 6 months

• 2 months