Question

A theater company has raised $870.75 by selling 25 floor seat tickets. Each ticket cost the same.Write an equation with a variable that can be solved to correctly find the price of each ticket. Explain how you created this equation.

Answer 1

Let the cost of each ticket is x.

The cost of 25 ticket will be 25x.

According to the question the cost of 25 tickets is $ 870.75.

Thus, equating both the cost we get the equation as,

$\begin{gathered} 25x=870.75 \\ x=34.83 \end{gathered}$

Thus, the requried cost of each ticket is $34.83