Question

At a restaurant, a meal with ice-cream costs $19.20. The price of a meal alone is $1.20 more than four times the price of the ice-cream. Let the price of the ice-cream be $x.

(a) Express the price of the meal alone in terms of x

(b) Hence by forming an algebraic equation in x, find the price of the ice-cream.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ice-cream = 3.6

Meal = 15.6

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Step-by-step explanation:

Let the price ice cream be x

meal be 4x+1.20

well

x+4x+1.20 =19.20

5x = 19.20 - 1.20

5x = 18

x = 18/5

x = 3.6 Price of Ice-cream

meal: 1.2 is more then 4times the price of ice-cream

4x+1.2

4(3.6) +1.2 = 15.6 Price of Meal

Total = 15.6 + 3.6 = 19.2

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