Question

Oliver has a points card for a movie theater.

He receives 65 rewards points just for signing up.
He earns 9.5 points for each visit to the movie theater.
He needs 141 points for a free movie ticket.

Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine vv, the number of visits Oliver must make to earn a free movie ticket.

Answer 1

141 points for a ticket.
Oliver already has 65 points.
So what you’re going to do is 141-65 to get the number of points he needs to buy a ticket.

141-65= 76 points

For every time he visits, he gets 9.5 points
To get the number of times he needs to visit in order to buy the ticket , You divide 76÷9.5

76÷9.5= 8

So Oliver needs to visit the movie theater eight times in order to get enough points which is 141 to get the ticket ️