SOLUTION: A teacher has decided to take her fifth grade class to a play. The manager of the theater agreed to discount the regular ​$33 price of the ticket by ​$0.50 for each tic
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Question 1127380: A teacher has decided to take her fifth grade class to a play. The manager of the theater agreed to discount the regular $33 price of the ticket by $0.50 for each ticket sold. The cost of the bus, $450, will be split equally among each of the students. How many students must attend to keep the cost per student at or below $33?
Answer by greenestamps(13216) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The cost of the bus is a fixed $450.
For x students, the cost of each ticket will be ; the total cost of the tickets for the x students will be .
We want the cost per student to be $33 or less. Instead of solving an inequality, we can solve an equation to find the number of students that will make the cost per student equal to $33.
ANSWER: The cost per student will be $33 if the number of students is 30; it will be less than $33 if the number of students is greater than 30.
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