Question

This is probably a super simple problem but I am just not getting it can I get some help?

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The volleyball team is selling raffle tickets for $1.50 each. It wants to make at least $250 from the sales. Assume everyone buys the same number of tickets. If there are 75 people at the fundraiser, what is the least number of tickets each person needs to buy to meet that goal?

Answer 1

Each person at least has to buy 3 tickets.

Explanation:

Because they want to make at least $250 from the sales. if there are 75 people, then 75 × =$225.So among 75, there some may children. there are children if there are 25 children, at least they have to buy 1 ticket to meet that sales goal

Answer 2

3 tickets

Explanation:

An inequality can be written to describe the amount of money raised when each person buys n tickets. We want that amount to be more than $250.

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setup

For 75n tickets sold, the revenue generated is (75n)(1.50). So, we want ...

(75n)(1.50) ≥ 250

solution

112.5n ≥ 250 . . . . . . . simplify

n ≥ 250/112.5 . . . . divide by the coefficient of n

n ≥ 2 2/9 . . . . . simplify

The smallest integer greater than 2 2/9 is 3.

Each person needs to buy 3 tickets to meet the fundraising goal.