Two movie tickets and 3 snacks are $24. Three movies tickets and 4 snacks are $35. How much is a movie ticket and how much is a snack.

In order to solve for the individual prices and snacks, we'll have to start by creating a couple of variables.

'm' will stand for number of movie tickets, and 's' will stand for number of snacks.

2m + 3s = 24
3m + 4s = 35

We can the substitution method to solve this question. Multiply the first equation by 3 and the second equation by -2:

6m + 9s = 72
-6m - 8s = -70

s = 2

We simply added these two new equations together, and now we have the cost of one of the items!

Now that we know a snack costs $2, we can input this value into one of our equations:

2m + 3s = 24
2m + 3(2) = 24
2m + 6 = 24
2m = 18
m = 9

That wasn't too bad, was it?

A movie ticket costs $9 and a snack costs $2.