Friday 3/27

This was a tough week, but a good one, as I saw many students working really hard to improve their abilities with systems of equations. Thank you for your perseverance!

Here is this week's extra credit:

Week 27 Extra Credit

The 8th grade classes at Cope MS and Moore MS will be heading to Splash Kingdom at the end of the year for a celebration. A total of 408 students from Moore will be going in 3 vans and 6 buses. A total of 516 students from Cope will be going in 6 vans and 7 buses. Each van will have the same number of passengers, and each bus will have the same number of passengers.

Write an equation in standard form to represent the students from Moore MS. *

Use x to represent the number of students in each van and y to represent the number of students in each bus.

Write an equation in standard form to represent the students from Cope MS.

Describe the first step you would take to solve the system using the linear combination method.


What variable will you be eliminating?

What is the solution to this system? *

Write your answer in the form (x, y).

Interpret the solution of the linear system in the problem situation. *

(What does your solution mean in the real world?)