Question

student council Is selling tickets to the valentine dance. tickets cost 5$ per person or 8$ per couple. to cover expenses, at least 1200$ worth of tickets must be sold. how many i $ tickets must be sold if no 5$ tickets are sold?

Answer 1

We can write an equation to show the amount of money earned based on the number of each ticket sold. Let's call the $5 tickets p and the $8 tickets c and the total sales S. Then we have:

`5p+8c=S`

We need to have $1,200 of sales at least, and we know that there will be 0 $5 tickets sold, so we have to find c:

`5(0)+8c=1200`

`8c=1200`

`c=150`