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  • 03-11-2018
  • Mathematics
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Tickets to a basketball game cost $4.25. Sixty tickets have already been sold. How many more tickets x must be sold to earn at least $340? Write your answer as an inequality.

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chisnau chisnau
  • 03-11-2018

Cost of 1 ticket = $4.25

Number of tickets sold = 60

Total money incurred = [tex]60\times4.25=255[/tex]

As total money that must be earned = 340

Let the number of tickets to be sold be = x

Inequality becomes

[tex]4.25x+255\geq340[/tex]

Solving it we get, x=20



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