At the fair
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a) Visitors to a school fair pay an entrance fee, and then pay 20c for each sideshow.
A visitor who has
n
turns at a sideshow spends 50 + 20
n
cents altogether.
a) Visitors to a school fair pay an entrance fee, and then pay 20c for each sideshow.
A visitor who has
n
turns at a sideshow spends 50 + 20
n
cents altogether.
i) How much is the entrance fee?
cents
ii) Iona has 6 turns at the sideshows.
How much does she spend altogether, including the entrance fee? $
iii) Tanielu and Lani spend $2.40 between them on sideshows. Lani has two more turns at sideshows than Tanielu.
How many turns did they each have?
Tanielu:
turns Lani:
turns
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b) Ms Iosefa takes his two children, Alex and Marie, to another fair. He spends a total of $7.00 altogether on sideshows and entrance fees.
b) Ms Iosefa takes his two children, Alex and Marie, to another fair. He spends a total of $7.00 altogether on sideshows and entrance fees.
i) If Marie had 8 turns at the sideshows, and her father had none, how many turns did Alex have?
turns
ii) Using the formula (100 + 20
n
) cents, work out how much Ms Iosefa spent on Marie at the fair. $
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