Jung-Soon has $25 to spend on prizes for a game at the school fair. Lip balm costs $1.25 each, and
mini-notebooks cost $1.50 each. Write a linear equation that can be used to determine how many of
each prize she can buy.
let the number of lip balms that can be bought be x and the notebooks be y then their total cost is 1.25x + 1.5y. The total $25 there for the equation becomes 1.25x + 1.5y=25.
