SOLUTION: Each ticket costs $9.50. The theater has already sold 70 tickets. Write and solve an inequality showing how many more tickets, x, must be sold to make at least $1000. Answer needs

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Question 992246: Each ticket costs $9.50. The theater has already sold 70 tickets. Write and solve an inequality showing how many more tickets, x, must be sold to make at least $1000. Answer needs to be in a mixed number.
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, josmiceli, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
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x is the number of MORE tickets to sell to sell AT LEAST $1000 of tickets.
70%2A%289.5%29%2Bx%2A%289.5%29%3E=1000

9.5x%3E=1000-%2870%29%289.5%29

x%3E=%281000-%2870%29%289.5%29%29%2F9.5
You can finish the computations.

Result is x%3E=35.26something
x%3E=35%265%2F19 but this makes poor sense since tickets can only be sold as whole, NOT AS MIXED NUMBERED FRACTIONS. The meaningful answer must be highlight%28x%3E=36%29. The exercise specifying to give as a mixed number is wrong.

Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
Answer by MathTherapy(10553) About Me  (Show Source):
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Each ticket costs $9.50. The theater has already sold 70 tickets. Write and solve an inequality showing how many more tickets, x, must be sold to make at least $1000. Answer needs to be in a mixed number. 
Don't know why, because a ticket (x) can never be a mixed number, but here goes: highlight_green%2835%265%2F19%29