Question

Question 51 ptsYou and two friends share the cost of renting a video game system for 5 nights. Each personalso rents one video game for $6.33. Each person paid $11.33. What is the cost of renting thevideo game system?$

Answer 1

We know that

• Three people share the cost of renting a video game system.

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• Each person rents one video game for $6.33.

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• Each person paid $11.33.

Notice that there are two costs, for the video game system and for each video game. We can express this as follows

$s+5(6.33)=5(11.33)$

We multiplied each price by 5 because each person paid 11.33, and each person rented for 6.33.

Now, we solve

$s+31.65=56.65\rightarrow s=56.65-31.65=25$

Therefore, the video game system costs $25.