Question

Art and his friends spent $62 at the movies. Admission tickets cost $12 apiece, and a bucket of popcorn costs $7. Which equation written in standard form represents the number of tickets bought, t, and the number of buckets of popcorn bought, p?

12p + 7t = 62
7p + 12t = 62
12p = 62 – 7t
7p = 62 – 12t

Answer 1

Cost = 12 per ticket times t plus 7 per popcorn times p = 62, so 12t + 7p = 62. That's the same as choice 2: 7p + 12t = 62.