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Question

A party rental company has chairs and tables for rent. The total cost to rent 5 chairs and 3 tables is $33. The total cost to rent 2 tables is $ 105. What is the cost to rent each chair and each table?

Answer 1

Many Algebra word problems can be broken into key pieces of information that can then be translated into equations. For example. Total cost of 5 chairs, and 3 tables is $33, can be written as 5c + 3t = 33, where c is the cost of 1 chair rental, and t is the cost of 1 table rental. You can go two ways from here. 1) figure out the cost of a single table, based on the 2nd clue, cost of 2 tables to rent is $105, or 2) write another equation based on the clue, either way you can then use the substitution method of solving systems of equations to find cost of each!