A family went to a baseball game. They parked the car in a parking lot which charged $20. The cost per ticket was $27. Write an equation for the total cost of going to the baseball game, where y is the total cost and x is the total number of people. If the family spent $236, how many people went to the game?

8 people went to the game.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent number of tickets.

We have been given that the family parked the car in a parking lot which charged $20. The cost per ticket was $27.

The cost of x tickets would be .

The total cost of going to baseball game would be equal to cost x tickets plus parking cost that is .

Therefore, the equation represents the total cost (y) of going to the baseball game.

To find the number of people who went to game, we will equate total cost with 236 as:

Therefore, 8 people went to the game.

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