Question

The student council is planning the school carnival. Each ticket costs $2.50. Explain how to write an equation that represents this scenario. Let x represent the number of tickets sold, and y represent the total amount of money raised.

Answer 1

Let x represent the number of tickets sold, and y represent the total amount of money raised. Since each ticket is $2.50, the total amount of money raised is equal to $2.50 times the number of tickets. The equation would be y = 2.50x.

Answer 2

To write this equation you have to first figure out how to get y the total amout of money raised. And if you multiply the cost of the tickets by the amount of tickets sold(x) you can get the total amount of money made
$2.50x=y