Question

Woodland Mound Park sells annual visitor passes for $12.50. Last year the park raised $53,500 in annual visitor pass sales. How many annual visitor passes were sold?

Answer 1

4280 passes were sold

Explanation:

The unknown we are looking for the number of passes that were sold. We don't know how MANY were sold, but we do know that the cost of ONE is 12.50. We represent the number of passes at that price per pass as

12.50x

We also know that money earned from the sale of this unknown number of passes came to 53,500. Our equation then becomes

12.50x = 53,500

Solving for x, we divide both sides by 12.50 to get that

x = 4280