Question P6 Algebra basics
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Tickets cost $6 each, with a booking fee of $5. The total cost in dollars is 6x + 5. What does x represent?
Answer
x is the number of tickets.
Use a letter for an unknown number and work with what it means.
In this one. Match each part of the expression to the story: a repeated cost and a fixed fee.
A story with a repeated cost and a fixed fee, written as an expression like 4x + 4, points here. So does a value for x to substitute in.
Children swap the two numbers round, using the fixed fee as the price per ticket and the price per ticket as the fixed fee.
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