Question

Salar's Drama class is performing a play. He wants to buy as many tickets as he can afford. If tickets cost $3.50 each and he has $15.25 to spend, how many tickets can he buy?

Answer 1

Answer: 4 tickets

Step-by-step explanation: If $15.25 is Salar’s total and each ticket costs $3.50, we need to use division to figure out how many tickets Salar can purchase. When we divide 15.25/3.50, we get 4.35 (approximately). Salar can’t have .35 of a ticket, so we round down to 4 whole tickets.

Answer 2

To find out how many tickets Salar can buy, we would need to divide the money he has, for spending, by the cost of each ticket-first. This would look like:

`15.25 / 3.5`
Or

`152.5 / 35`
When simplified, the quotient (answer for a division problem) would be 4.357143.

4.357143 is not a whole number. Let's round it to nearest whole number: 4. After all, Salar can't exactly buy 4.357143 tickets. He would have to tear a ticket.

So, with $15.25, Salar can buy 4 tickets for the play.