Question

A family purchase tickets to a museum and spent a total of $70.00. The family purchased 5 tickets. There was a $1.5p processing fee for each ticket. Write and solvean equation that can be used to find x, the cost of one ticket to the museum. The equation must involve a variable. show your work or explain your answer.

Answer 1

x: cost of one ticket

For each ticket, the family have to pay x + $1.5

Given that they bought 5 tickets, they spent 5(x + 1.5). Then:

5(x + 1.5) = 70

x + 1.5 = 70/5

x + 1.5 = 14

x = 14 - 1.5

x = $12.5