SOLUTION: You have 30 fair tickets and each rides cost 1through 5 tickets. How many combinations are there? Explain the equation and make a chart/graph plus show all work

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Question 900694: You have 30 fair tickets and each rides cost 1through 5 tickets. How many combinations are there? Explain the equation and make a chart/graph plus show all work
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You have 30 fair tickets and each rides cost 1through 5 tickets. How many combinations are there? Explain the equation and make a chart/graph plus show all work
Let a = the number of rides that cost 1 ticket.
Let b = the number of rides that cost 2 tickets.
Let c = the number of rides that cost 3 tickets.
Let d = the number of rides that cost 4 tickets.
Let e = the number of rides that cost 5 tickets.

a+2b+3c+4d+5e = 30

Here's a chart of all 674 different ways you can spend 
your 30 fair tickets, starting with 6 5-ticket rides
all the way through 30 1-ticket rides.  That's a pretty
big assignment!

 a  b  c  d  e
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 0  0  0  0  6
 0  0  0  5  2
 0  0  1  3  3
 0  0  2  1  4
 0  0  2  6  0
 0  0  3  4  1
 0  0  4  2  2
 0  0  5  0  3
 0  0  6  3  0
 0  0  7  1  1
 0  0 10  0  0
 0  1  0  2  4
 0  1  0  7  0
 0  1  1  0  5
 0  1  1  5  1
 0  1  2  3  2
 0  1  3  1  3
 0  1  4  4  0
 0  1  5  2  1
 0  1  6  0  2
 0  1  8  1  0
 0  2  0  4  2
 0  2  1  2  3
 0  2  2  0  4
 0  2  2  5  0
 0  2  3  3  1
 0  2  4  1  2
 0  2  6  2  0
 0  2  7  0  1
 0  3  0  1  4
 0  3  0  6  0
 0  3  1  4  1
 0  3  2  2  2
 0  3  3  0  3
 0  3  4  3  0
 0  3  5  1  1
 0  3  8  0  0
 0  4  0  3  2
 0  4  1  1  3
 0  4  2  4  0
 0  4  3  2  1
 0  4  4  0  2
 0  4  6  1  0
 0  5  0  0  4
 0  5  0  5  0
 0  5  1  3  1
 0  5  2  1  2
 0  5  4  2  0
 0  5  5  0  1
 0  6  0  2  2
 0  6  1  0  3
 0  6  2  3  0
 0  6  3  1  1
 0  6  6  0  0
 0  7  0  4  0
 0  7  1  2  1
 0  7  2  0  2
 0  7  4  1  0
 0  8  0  1  2
 0  8  2  2  0
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 0  9  4  0  0
 0 10  0  0  2
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 0 11  0  2  0
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 0 12  2  0  0
 0 13  0  1  0
 0 15  0  0  0
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 1  0  2  2  3
 1  0  3  0  4
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 1  0  5  1  2
 1  0  7  2  0
 1  0  8  0  1
 1  1  0  3  3
 1  1  1  1  4
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 1  1  3  2  2
 1  1  4  0  3
 1  1  5  3  0
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 1  1  9  0  0
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 1  2  1  3  2
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 1  2  4  2  1
 1  2  5  0  2
 1  2  7  1  0
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 1  3  6  0  1
 1  4  0  4  1
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 1  4  2  0  3
 1  4  3  3  0
 1  4  4  1  1
 1  4  7  0  0
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 1  9  2  0  1
 1 10  0  1  1
 1 10  3  0  0
 1 11  1  1  0
 1 12  0  0  1
 1 13  1  0  0
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 2  1  3  3  1
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 2  1  6  2  0
 2  1  7  0  1
 2  2  0  1  4
 2  2  0  6  0
 2  2  1  4  1
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 2  2  3  0  3
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 2  2  8  0  0
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 3 10  1  1  0
 3 11  0  0  1
 3 12  1  0  0
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 4  0  7  0  1
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 4  1  0  6  0
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 4  1  4  3  0
 4  1  5  1  1
 4  1  8  0  0
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 4  2  1  1  3
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 4  2  4  0  2
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 4 10  2  0  0
 4 11  0  1  0
 4 13  0  0  0
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 6 12  0  0  0
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 7 10  1  0  0
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 8 11  0  0  0
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10  0  0  0  4
10  0  0  5  0
10  0  1  3  1
10  0  2  1  2
10  0  4  2  0
10  0  5  0  1
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10  1  1  0  3
10  1  2  3  0
10  1  3  1  1
10  1  6  0  0
10  2  0  4  0
10  2  1  2  1
10  2  2  0  2
10  2  4  1  0
10  3  0  1  2
10  3  2  2  0
10  3  3  0  1
10  4  0  3  0
10  4  1  1  1
10  4  4  0  0
10  5  0  0  2
10  5  2  1  0
10  6  0  2  0
10  6  1  0  1
10  7  2  0  0
10  8  0  1  0
10 10  0  0  0
11  0  0  1  3
11  0  1  4  0
11  0  2  2  1
11  0  3  0  2
11  0  5  1  0
11  1  0  3  1
11  1  1  1  2
11  1  3  2  0
11  1  4  0  1
11  2  0  0  3
11  2  1  3  0
11  2  2  1  1
11  2  5  0  0
11  3  0  2  1
11  3  1  0  2
11  3  3  1  0
11  4  1  2  0
11  4  2  0  1
11  5  0  1  1
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11  6  1  1  0
11  7  0  0  1
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12  0  1  0  3
12  0  2  3  0
12  0  3  1  1
12  0  6  0  0
12  1  0  4  0
12  1  1  2  1
12  1  2  0  2
12  1  4  1  0
12  2  0  1  2
12  2  2  2  0
12  2  3  0  1
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12  3  1  1  1
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12  4  2  1  0
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12  5  1  0  1
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13  0  0  3  1
13  0  1  1  2
13  0  3  2  0
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13  1  0  0  3
13  1  1  3  0
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25  1  1  0  0
26  0  0  1  0
26  2  0  0  0
27  0  1  0  0
28  1  0  0  0
30  0  0  0  0

Edwin