Question

A school charges £5 for tickets to a show.

The school raises £x in total from ticket sales.
Write an expression for the total number of tickets sold by the school.

Answer 1

x/5

Explanation:

The revenue from sales is the product of the selling price of the ticket and the number of tickets sold.

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If n represents the number of tickets sold, then the revenue from selling tickets for £5 each will be ...

(n)(£5) = £x

Dividing by the coefficient of n will given the number of tickets sold:

n = £x/(£5) = x/5

The number of tickets sold is x/5.