Question

Holly bought 23 tickets to the baseball game. She got a group rate that gave her $4 off of the regular ticket price for each ticket. The total cost was $184. What was the regular price for each ticket? Enter your answer in the box. $

Answer 1

I got it wrong answering $12, my school said it was $10.

I have no idea how though, they didn't show me their equation.

Answer 2

The regular price of the ticket was $12.

Explanation:

Let us call
`P` the regular price of the tickets, and if she had bought tickets at this price, the total cost would have been

`23P`.

But Holly got $4 off the regular ticket price, that means one ticket cost her

`P-4`

and if she bought 23 tickets it cost her

`23(P-4)`

and we are told this equals $184; therefore we have

`23(P-4)=184`

now we solve this equation the following way:

`23(P-4)=184`

`23P-4(23)=184`

`23P-92=184`

`23P=276`

`\boxed{ P=12}`

Thus, the regular price was $12.