Question

The drama club is selling tickets to their play to raise money for the show's expenses. Each student ticket sells for $7.50 and each adult ticket sells for $11. The drama club must make no less than $990 from ticket sales to cover the show's costs. Write an inequality that could represent the possible values for the number of student tickets sold, ss, and the number of adult tickets sold, aa, that would satisfy the constraint.

Answer 1

Answer: ss*$7.50 + aa*$11 ≥ $990.

Explanation:

We have two variables:

aa = # of adult tickets sold.

ss = # of student tickets sold.

The total profit is:

P = ss*$7.50 + aa*$11

And we want P ≥ $990.

Then we can write the inequality:

ss*$7.50 + aa*$11 ≥ $990.

Now, we have only one equation and two variables, so there are a lot of possible solutions for this system.