Atraveling circus with thrill rides charges $6 for admission plus $2.50 for each ride you take. if you pay $31.00 total, how many rides did you take?

10 rides

Step-by-step explanation:

$6 is for admission (fixed), so if you paid $31 in total, $6 went to admission, so you had $31 - $6 = $25 left for the rides.

If each ride costs $2.50 and you have $25 to ride, the number of rides you took was:

So 10 rides

not enough information

step-by-step explanation:

we cannot know this, because the other students could have handed out 10 flyers, or they could have handed out 100. one way, the mean would go up, and another way, the mean would go down.