Question

How do you solve this?

A tour bus operator sold $1,517 worth of tickets for a trip to Niagara Falls. Each ticket cost the same amount and could be paid for with three bills. What was the cost of the ticket?

Answer 1

You need to factor 1517, try dividing it by three bill combos to find an integer solution.
combos of 1$, 5$, 10$, 20$, etc.
I tried various combos starting with smallest and found 41 = 20$+20$+1$ to be a factor of 1517.

1517$ / 41$ = 37 tickets
cost of tickets is 41$