SOLUTION: a group of friends bought 8 tickets to a concert and paid $416. They used a coupon for $5 off each ticket for their purchase. write and solve an equation to find the original price
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Question 1103786: a group of friends bought 8 tickets to a concert and paid $416. They used a coupon for $5 off each ticket for their purchase. write and solve an equation to find the original price of the tickets.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a group of friends bought 8 tickets to a concert and paid $416. They used a coupon for $5 off each ticket for their purchase. write and solve an equation to find the original price of the tickets.
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Let the original ticket price be "x".
Equation:
8(x+5) = 416
x+5 = 52
x = $47 (original price)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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