Jack wants to buy a new car that cost 15,000 dollars, his parents gave him 6,000 dollars

for his birthday.

He makes 500 dollars month at the local Starbucks. How many months will it take him to make enough
money to buy the car?
Approach 1:
Create an equation

y=500x+6000

X will represent the amount of months it will take Jack to buy the car
You can plug 15,000 in for y and then solve for x
15000=500x+6000

subract 6000 from both sides

9000=500x

divide 500 from both sides to solve for x

X=18

it would take Jack 18 months to save up for his car

Approach 2:
Create an equation and a table to go with it

y=500x+6000

X will represent the amount of months it will take Jack to buy the car
You can plug numbers in for x until you reach 15,000
When you plug in the numbers into the equation you will find it takes 18 months
X

2
4

7000
8000

6
8

9000
10000

10
12

11000
12000

14

13000

16
18

14000
15000