Mints cost 5 cents each and gumballs cost 3 cents each. Kathleen spent 60 cents buying x mints and y gumballs. Write an equation in stand form that represents all the different combinations of mints and gumballs that Kathleen might have purchased.

3 answers

5x+3y=60
Change the equation to slope-intercept form.
No, you do that. Just solve for y.
What do you get?