Your school hosted a black history month program last night at 7pm in the lecture hall. Adult tickets are $5 each and student tickets are $2 each. Mrs. Davis is giving extra credit to those students who attended. They raised a total of $150. Write an equation that represents the amount of money that has been collected. Be sure to specify what the variables represent.

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i’m using x and y as variables... to calculate the total amount of money collected, you need to multiply the number of adult tickets by the cost of each adult ticket… and multiply the number of student tickets by the cost of each student ticket... then you add the two amounts together

the equation that represents the amount of money collected is:
5x + 2y = 150

"5x" represents the total amount collected from the adult tickets, "2y" represents the total amount collected from the student tickets, and "150" represents the total amount of money raised :)