Question

Tickets for the school play cost $7 each. Each member of the cast gets 1 free ticket for a family member. For the run of the play, 210 tickets are collected, including all the free tickets, and the box office makes $1,358 from ticket sales. The equation that models this situation is7(210 – c) = 1,358 where c is the number of cast members. How many cast members are in the play?

Answer 1

there are 16 cast members.

Explanation:

7(210-c)=1358 multiply everything in the parentheses by 7

1470-cx=1358

-7c=-112 subtract 1470 from both sides

c=16 divide -112 by -7

c=16