Question

PThe price of tickets in a group when a purchased in bulk can be found with the equation C=px+24 were C is the cost, p is the number of people,and X is the price per ticket. What is price of of each ticket if it costs $189 to buy tickets for 15 people ?

a $8
b $24
c $9
d $11

please show work

Answer 1

D.11 If you plug in 189 for C and 15 for p. Then flip the equation to 15x+24=189, subtract 24 from both sides you get 15x=165. Finally divide both sides by 15 to get x=11. Also, when I say subtract from both sides you subtract 24 from 24 to eliminate that and 24 from 189.