Sandy wants to rent a skating rink for her birthday party. The Skates Plus company charges a $50 rental fee plus
$10 per person. The Rollerblades company charges a
rental fee of $75 plus $5 per person. Write and solve a
system of equations to determine the number of people
that need to attend the party for the cost for both
companies to be the same? What is that price? Let x
represent the number of people and let y represent the cost.
Pay attention to your spacing!
Equation for Skates Plus: y =
Equation for Rollerblades: y =
Equation for Skates Plus = Rollerblades: