Questionin pounds, does the scale show? Record your answer on the grid 9 to tack theater sudent to a play. mr.Oliveros spends in all. he spends for his tichet and spend the reston sto dent tiokets. Each student ticket is 2.50 . How many studerit ticket mooliveros buy?
Studdy Solution
STEP 1
What is this asking?
How many student tickets did Mr.
Oliveros buy if he spent total, his ticket was , and each student ticket cost ?
Watch out!
Don't forget to subtract the cost of Mr.
Oliveros' ticket before calculating the number of student tickets!
STEP 2
1. Calculate money spent on student tickets.
2. Calculate the number of student tickets.
STEP 3
Alright, so Mr.
Oliveros spent a **total** of , and his own ticket cost .
To find out how much he spent on student tickets, we need to subtract the cost of his ticket from the total amount.
This makes perfect sense, right?
We're taking away what he spent on himself to see what's left for the students!
STEP 4
So, we have .
This means Mr.
Oliveros spent **\$35** on student tickets.
Awesome!
STEP 5
Now, we know each student ticket cost , and he spent a total of on them.
To find out how many tickets he bought, we're going to divide the total amount spent on student tickets by the price of each ticket.
Think of it like this: if each ticket costs , how many s fit into ?
STEP 6
Let's do the math!
We have .
We can write this as a fraction:
To make the division easier, let's multiply the top and bottom by **10** to get rid of the decimal:
Now, we can divide by .
Let's see, goes into once with a remainder of , bring down the zero to get , and goes into four times.
So, we get .
STEP 7
So, Mr.
Oliveros bought **14** student tickets!
Fantastic!
STEP 8
Mr. Oliveros bought 14 student tickets.
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