Some friends spent a total of $12.00 on popcorn and drinks at the movie theatre a bucket of popcorn costs $2.00 and a drink costs $1.50 create an equation to represent the relationship between the number of buckets of popcorn x and the number of drinks y the friends bought for $12.00 how many buckets of popcorn did they buy

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14 October, 04:33

Some friends spent a total of $12.00 on popcorn and drinks at the movie theatre a bucket of popcorn costs $2.00 and a drink costs $1.50 create an equation to represent the relationship between the number of buckets of popcorn x and the number of drinks y the friends bought for $12.00 how many buckets of popcorn did they buy

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Quincy · Answer 1

2x+1.50y=12.00

X is how many popcorn bought and y is how many drinks bought

You have to equal to 12 or 12 dollars but you don't know how many of each product was bought, so 2 * (x) + 1.50 * (y) will give you 12.