Question

The student council has decided to have a raffle at the carnival. They came up with a table to show the relationship between the number of tickets bought and the number of raffle entries. Explain why it could be helpful for the student council to determine an equation to represent this data.

Answer 1

Answer:Write an equation to find the number of each type of ticket they should sell.Let "x" be # of adult tickets; Let "y" be # of student tickets: Value Equation: 5x+3y=450-------------------------- b. Graph your equation.y = (-5/3)x+150

c. Use your graph to find two different combinations of tickets sold.I'll leave that to you.

And so looking at a table only gives you a small number of data points, whereas an equation can be used to find any data point.

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Answer 2

An equation is helpful in other to make predictions about the number of raffle entries for a given number of tickets purchased.

Representing data such the one described above as an equation is helpful in other to obtain a mathematical model to make projection about the number of raffle entries possible for any number of ticket purchased.

For instance :

If the number of tickets bought = x

Number of raffle entries = y

A linear equation model to predict the number of raffle entries, y can be obtained. Hence, we can have a model in the form :

y = bx + c

Where, b = slope or rate of change

c = intercept.

An equation is helpful in other to make predictions about the number of raffle entries for a given number of tickets purchased.

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