Question

The drama club is selling tickets to their play to raise money for the show's expenses. Each student ticket sells for $8 and each adult ticket sells for $10.50. The auditorium can hold a maximum of 105 people. The drama club must make at least $990 from ticket sales to cover the show's costs. If 65 adult tickets were sold, determine the minimum number of student tickets that the drama club must sell in order to meet the show's expenses.

Answer 1

You need to sell 39 Student tickets minimum to be able to cover the cost over all.

Explanation:

If they sell 65 adult tickets, then you have to do 65 x 10.50 = $682.5

with that in mind you will take 308 + 682.5 because that equals 990.5 that would be the minimum amount but you would need to to take 39 x 8 to get 312 because 38 x 8 is 304 so that isn't enough.