A school plans to spend twice the amount it did last year on its winter dance, less the cost of the disco ball which was $150, since they have it from last year. A total of $1,500 is being spent this year. Fill in the blanks to write an equation that will determine the amount of last year’s budget, a .(2 points)

Question

A school plans to spend twice the amount it did last year on its winter dance, less the cost of the disco ball which was $150, since they have it from last year. A total of $1,500 is being spent this year. Fill in the blanks to write an equation that will determine the amount of last year’s budget, a .(2 points)

__(a-__)=___

Answer 1

Let x be the amount spent last year on the winter dance.

According to the information given, the school plans to spend twice the amount it did last year, so the planned budget for this year is 2x.
Less the cost of the disco ball, the budget for this year is 2x - 150.

The total amount being spent this year is $1,500, so we can write the equation:

2x - 150 = 1,500