SOLUTION: A passenger on a bus pays the fare for herself and four children. The peak fare for an adult is $50.00, and the peak fare for each child is $25.00. How much is the total peak fare?

Question 1084656: A passenger on a bus pays the fare for herself and four children. The peak fare for an adult is $50.00, and the peak fare for each child is $25.00. How much is the total peak fare? The off peak fares are $5.00 less per ticket.how much is the total off peak fare?
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
she pays the fare for herself and her 4 children.

the peak fare is 50 for an adult and 25 for each child.

she paid a total peak fare of 50 + 4 * 25 = 50 + 100 = 150

the off peak fare is 5 dollars less per ticket.

she bought a total of 5 tickets.

5 * 5 = 25

subtract 25 from 150 and her off peak fare would have been 125.

if you subtract 5 from each adult fare and 5 from each child fare, then those tickets would be 45 for the adult and 20 for each child.

45 + 4 * 20 = 45 + 80 = 125 total.

solution.

peak fare for everybody is 150.

off peak fare for everybody is 125.

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