Thread: help! exam tomorrow

1)Two hundred people attended a dance recital. Adults tickets were $10.00 and children were $7.50. If the total revenue was $1850.00 how many adults and how many children attended?


2) Forty metres of fencing are available to enclose a rectangular garden. The area of the garden is given by the formula A= x(20-x) where x is the length of the garden.
a) What is the maximum area that can be enclosed??
b) What are the dimensions of the garden with maximum area?


If anyone knows how to do this please help, its much appreciated.

even if someone helps me with just one, that will help!

Hello, Eric!

1)Two hundred people attended a dance recital.
Adults tickets were $10.00 and children were $7.50.
If the total revenue was $1850.00,
how many adults and how many children attended?

Let = number of adults.
Then = number of children.

The adult's tickets brought $10 each.
. . The revenue was: dollars.
The children's tickets brought $7.50 each.
. . The revenue was: dollars.
Hence, the total revenue was: . dollars.

But we are told that the total revenue was 1850 dollars.

There is our equation! . . . .

Solve for

Hence: .

Then: .


There were:

2) Forty metres of fencing are available to enclose a rectangular garden.
The area of the garden is given by the formula: .
. . where is the length of the garden.

a) What is the maximum area that can be enclosed?
b) What are the dimensions of the garden with maximum area?

The area is given by: .
This is a down-opening parabola; its vertex is the maximum point.

The vertex of a parabola is at: .
We have: .
So the vertex is at: .

(a) Then the maximum area is: .


Since the length is 10 m and the perimeter is 40 m, the width is also 10 m.

(b) The dimensions are:
. . .(The garden is square!)