online concert tickets cost $37 each, plus a service charge of $8.50 per ticket. The website also charges a transaction fee of $14.99 for the purchase. You paid $242.49. How many tickets did you buy?
online concert tickets cost $37 each, plus a service charge of $8.50 per ticket. The website also charges a transaction fee of $14.99 for the purchase. You paid $242.49. How many tickets did you buy?
242.49 - 14.99 =$227.50 money spent on purchase of tickets only.
$227.50 / [$37 + $8.50]=
$227.50 / $45.50 =5 tickets were purchased.
Each ticket costs $45.50 ($37.00 + $8.50).
You paid a total of $242.49, which includes a transaction fee of $14.99.
Subtracting $14.99 from $242.49, gives a value of $227.50, which is the cost of the tickets.
To find how many tickets were bought, divide $227.50 by $45.50.
$227.50 / $45.50 = 5, the number of tickets bought.