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Fallington Fair charges an entrance fee of $10 and $1.00 per ticket for the rides. Levittown Fair charges $5 entrance fee and $2 per ticket. Write an equation/inequality to show when Fallington Fair and Levittown Fair will cost the same.
Solution
Let's put some notation for this case, let x the number of rides and we can set up the following equation:
[tex]\text{Fallington}=\text{Levitown}[/tex][tex]10+x=5+2x[/tex]And now we can solve for x on the following way:
10-5= 2x-x
5=x
So then Fallington Fair and Levittown Fair will cost the same at 5 rides