At the holiday valley ski resort, skis cost $16 to rent and snowboards cost $19. if 28 people rented on a certain day and the resort brought in $478, how many skis and snowboards were rented?

skis and snowboards were rented.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of skis rented be and the number of snowboards rented be .

If a total of people rented on a certain day, then the total number of skis and snowboards rented that particular day is also .

This gives us the equation

.

If skis cost $ , then number of skis cost $ .

If snowboards cost $ , then number of snowboards cost $ .

The total cost will give us another equation,

From equation (1),

.

We put equation (3) into equation (2) to get,

We expand the brackets to obtain,

We group like terms to get,

This implies that,

We divide both sides by to get,

We put into equation (3) to get,

Therefore skis and snowboards were rented.

12

step-by-step explanation:

12 + 5 = 17

12x2=24

24-7=17