Solving Linear Systems Graphically — Unit test Answers

The digits of a two-digit number sum to 8. When the digits are reversed, the resulting number is 18 less than the original number. What is the original number?

Carmen rides her bicycle at a constant rate to the market. When she rides her bicycle back home along the same route, she bikes at three-quarters the rate she biked to the market. If the trip home takes 12 minutes longer than the trip to the market, how many minutes does it take Carmen to bike home?

A school drama department sells 40 more student tickets than adult tickets. Charging $8 for adult tickets and $6 for student tickets, the drama department raises a total of $1,920 in ticket sales. Let x represent the number of adult tickets sold and y represent the number of student tickets sold. Which system of equations can be used to find how many of each ticket is sold?

The concession stand at the local high school sells pretzels and lemonade. The total cost of two pretzels and a lemonade is $5.75. The total cost of two lemonades is $0.25 more than the cost of a pretzel. What is the cost of a pretzel?

Reese read twice as many pages Saturday than she read Sunday. If she read a total of 78 pages over the weekend, how many pages did Reese read Sunday?

Miguel and Beth like to play video games together. Miguel has m video games, and Beth has b video games. Miguel has 4 more video games than Beth, and together they have a total of 24 video games. Which system of equations can be used to find how many video games belong to each friend?

Duncan has the space to plant, at most, 24 flower bulbs in his garden. Daffodil bulbs cost $3 each, and tulip bulbs cost $2 each. Duncan does not wish to spend more than $60 on his garden. Which set of bulbs satisfies Duncan’s constraints?

A movie theater has 400 seats. Tickets at the theater cost $8 for students, $10 for adults, and $7 for senior citizens. On a night when all the seats were sold, the theater made $3,535 from ticket sales. If the number of adult tickets sold was 10 less than the number of student and senior tickets combined, how many senior tickets were sold?

Lisa leaves a gas station and drives at an average rate of 50 mi/hr. Keisha leaves the gas station one hour later and drives along the same route at an average rate of 60 mi/hr. Let d represent the distance driven in miles and t represent the time since Lisa left the gas station. Which system of equations can be used to find how long after Lisa left the gas stations that she is passed by Keisha?

At a cafe, the Bishop family pays $12 for a salad, a fruit bowl, and two sandwiches. The Cortez family pays $14 for two salads and two sandwiches. The Donovan family pays $14 for a salad and three fruit bowls. What is the price of a fruit bowl at the cafe?