Planning your dream vacation!

Your family won a $10,000 grand prize in a radio contest and you’re going to use it to plan a
dream vacation! Since you are a brilliant mathematician, your family has asked you to make the
budget and start planning the trip.

1. How many people are in your family? ________

2. How much of the $10,000 do you want to spend in each of these categories?

Plane Tickets: _____________________ (suggested: at least $4,000 - $6,000)

Hotel: _____________________ (suggested: at least $2,000 - $4,000)
Food: _____________________ (suggested: at least $200 - $500)
Equipment Rentals: _____________________ (suggested: $500 - $1,000)
Attractions: _____________________ (suggested: $200 - $500)

You will use this budget to help you plan the trip!

PLANE TICKETS
3. Before you decide where you want to go, you need to figure out how much money you can
spend per plane ticket. Choose a variable to represent the cost per plane ticket, fill in the table
below, set up an equation, and solve it.

Number of people in your Cost per plane ticket Total cost for plane tickets
family (from your budget)

4. Circle your answer to the equation you just solved. What does this answer mean?

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5. Circle a destination that will fit your budget from the options below:
 Destination Cost per ticket

Miami, Florida $153

Las Vegas, Nevada $202

San Francisco, California $374

Quito, Ecuador $407

Lima, Peru $585

Rome, Italy $627

Vienna, Austria $705

Tokyo, Japan $867

Hana, Hawaii $930

Rio de Janeiro $1,135

Frankfurt, Germany $1,281

Brisbane, Australia $1,342

Cape Town, South Africa $1,456

Amsterdam, The Netherlands $1,623

Queenstown, New Zealand $1,992

6. How much money will be left over from your budget if you choose those tickets? Calculate the
amount saved per ticket, choose a variable for the total amount saved, set up and solve the
equation.
Number of people in your Amount saved per ticket Total amount saved
family

HOTEL
7. Your family wants to rent enough rooms so that only two people have to share a room.
Determine the total number of rooms your family needs to rent. Use the table to help you set up
and solve your equation.
Number of people per room Number of rooms Total number of people in
your family

8. Circle your answer to the equation you just solved. How many rooms should you rent?
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9. Determine the number of nights you can stay at a hotel that charges $120 per room.
a. First, you need to calculate the total cost per night, using the following table to help you:
Number of rooms Cost per room per night Total cost per night

b. Next, determine the number of nights you can stay at the hotel, using the table:
Total cost per night Number of nights Total cost for hotel (from your
budget)

10. Circle your answer to the equation you just solved. How many nights can you stay?
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FOOD
Your family wants to go out to eat while on vacation to enjoy some authentic local food. You
estimate it will cost about $10 per person each time you eat out. For the rest of your vacation,
your family plans to spend about $80 on groceries.

11. Determine the number of nights your family can dine out together using the table to help
you:
Number of Cost of dinner Total cost to Number of Total cost (left in
people in your per person dine out once dinners food budget after
family buying
groceries)

12. Circle your answer to the equation you just solved. How many nights can your family go
out?

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RENTAL EQUIPMENT
Your family decided they want to rent jet skis and mountain bikes while they’re on vacation. You
can rent jet skis for $125 for two hours, or you can rent super jet skis (with a tube or water skis
attached to the back) for $165 for two hours. Some of your family members will rent super jet
skis, while the rest of your family will rent regular jet skis.

13. Use the variable n for the number of people in your family who rent regular jet skis. If n
family members rented the regular jet skis, and the rest of the family rented super jet skis, write
an expression for the number of family members who would rent super jet skis.
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14. Some of your family members also want to rent mountain bikes for $50 for two hours. If all of
the family members who rented jet skis, and one of the family members who rented a super jet
ski want to rent mountain bikes, write an expression for the total number of family members who
want to rent mountain bikes: ________________________________

15. Now you want to figure out the number of family members who can rent each type of
equipment so that the cost is within your budget. Use the information from question 10 and the
table below to help you set up and solve the equation:
Number of Price per Number of Price per Number of Price per Total cost
family regular jet family super jet family mountain (from your
members ski members ski members bike budget)
renting renting renting
regular jet super jet mountain
skis skis bikes

16. Circle your answer to the equation you just solved. How many family members will rent
regular jet skis, how many will rent super jet skis, and how many will rent mountain bikes?
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17. Check your answer from 16 to make sure that the actual cost of the rental equipment is
within your budget in the space below.
 ATTRACTIONS
18. There are two main attractions that your family wants to do. Some family members want to
go scuba diving, which costs $80. Other family members want to go to an amusement park,
where tickets are $40 each. Determine how many family members can do each activity to fit
your budget if 2 family members just want to scuba dive, 1 just wants to go to the amusement
park, and n want to do both.
Number of family Price per scuba Number of family Price per Total cost (from
members going diver members going amusement park your budget)
scuba diving to park ticket

19. Circle your answer. How many people in your family can go scuba diving? How many can
go to the amusement park?
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 SOUVENIRS
20. Your family forgot to set aside extra money for souvenirs! You decide to get a job to help
pay for the souvenirs you want to get your friends. You want to have at least $200 to buy the
souvenirs, and a minimum wage job pays $8.15 per hour. How many hours do you need to work
in order to make at least $200 (forget about taxes)?
Number of hours worked Wages earned per hour Total money earned for
souvenirs

21. Circle your answer. How many hours do you have to work?
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22. T-shirts cost $15 each, and keychains cost $2 each. You want to buy 15 more keychains
than T-shirts. Let t be the number of T-shirts you want to buy. Determine the number of T-shirts
and keychains you can buy to stay within your $200 budget. Use the table to help you solve.

Number of T- Cost per T-shirt Number of Cost per Total cost

shirts keychains keychain

23. Circle your answer. How many T-shirts will you buy? How many keychains will you buy?
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