Question

A school is having a dance to raise money for a field trip. It costs $5 to get into the dance, and each raffle ticket sold is $2. If the teacher makes $29 during the fundraiser, how many tickets did she sell?

Answer 1

After subtracting the dance entry fee from the total amount made, we divide the remaining amount by the price of one raffle ticket to find that the teacher sold 12 raffle tickets.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many raffle tickets the teacher sold during the fundraiser, we start by subtracting the entry fee from the total amount made. Since it costs $5 to get into the dance, we subtract this from the total of $29.
$29 - $5 = $24

Now that we have the total amount made from selling raffle tickets alone, we divide this by the cost of one raffle ticket to find out how many were sold.

$24 ÷ $2 = 12

Therefore, the teacher sold 12 raffle tickets.