document.write( "Question 495129: I hate word prolems so much, and I can't figure this one out for my life. Here it is. A family buys airline tickets online. Each ticket costs $167. The family buys travel insurance with each ticket that costs $19 per ticket. The Web site charges a fee of $16 for the entire purchase. The family is charged a total of $1132. How many tickets did the family buy. I need a \"let\" statement. (Let x = ) and an equation. Please help! \n" ); document.write( "
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I hate word prolems so much,
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document.write( "But math is only useful for solving word problems!\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "and I can't figure this one out for my life. Here it is. A family buys airline tickets online. Each ticket costs $167. The family buys travel insurance with each ticket that costs $19 per ticket. The Web site charges a fee of $16 for the entire purchase. The family is charged a total of $1132. How many tickets did the family buy. I need a \"let\" statement. (Let x = ) and an equation. Please help!
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document.write( "To find out what to let x be, look at the question at the end:\r\n" );
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document.write( "So you let x be the answer, or\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let x = how many tickets the family bought.\r\n" );
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document.write( "1.  The family bought x tickets, so we multiply $167 by x and get $167x \r\n" );
document.write( "for the cost of all x tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "2.  The family bought x tickets, so we multiply $19 by x and get $19x\r\n" );
document.write( "for the total cost of the insurance.\r\n" );
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document.write( "3.  That's not per ticket so we don't multiply it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If we add those three figures up from steps 1, 2 and 3, we just put plus \r\n" );
document.write( "signs between them, like this\r\n" );
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document.write( "$167x + $19x + $16\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "4. The family is charged a total of $1132.
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document.write( "So we just set that equal to $1132 like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "$167x + $19x + $16 = $1132\r\n" );
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document.write( "We drop the dollar marks for convenience:\r\n" );
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document.write( "167x + 19x + 16 = 1132\r\n" );
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document.write( "      186x + 16 = 1132\r\n" );
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document.write( "           186x = 1116\r\n" );
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document.write( "              x = 6\r\n" );
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document.write( "So they bought 6 tickets.\r\n" );
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