SOLUTION: If the question is this: A jazz band wants to sell $28,000 worth of tickets. If each ticket costs $4, how many tickets will the band have to sell to meet its goal? If that is the q

Question 1045037: If the question is this: A jazz band wants to sell $28,000 worth of tickets. If each ticket costs $4, how many tickets will the band have to sell to meet its goal? If that is the question, what is the formula for working out the answer?
Answer by rosey51235(30) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello! Luckily for you, this is a very simple problem. You need three pieces to write an equation for this one: the cost of tickets (you know), the amount desired (you know), and the number of tickets sold (to be determined!).
If tickets cost $4 and the students desire to make $28,000 our equation will look like this:
4x=28,000
where x is the number of tickets the students sell. Now to solve, we need to isolate the variable x. We can accomplish this by dividing both sides by 4.
28,000/4=7,000.
So, if the students want to make $28,000 off of $4 tickets, they will need to sell 7,000 tickets. Talk about a packed house! :)
Hope I helped,
Rosey
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