Question

Another group held a dance to raise money for charity. Pre-sale tickets were $2.00 less than ticketspurchased at the event.They sold 54 pre-sale tickets and 82 tickets at the event. The group raised $980 from total ticket sales.How much did they charge for each ticket?Write and solve an equation to answer this question.

Answer 1

To solve this question let's represent our situation by an expression.

If we consider "x" as the value for tickets at the event, so "x-2" represent the value for pre-sale tickets. And once we have the number of each tickets (54 units for pre-sale and 82 units for tickets at the event) we have sold and also the amount the group raised ($980), now we can create our expression and find "x":

Now we have:

Tickets at the event : x = $8

Pre-sale: x-2 = 8-2 = $6

And those are the final answers.