The student council is sponsoring a carnival to raise money. tickets cost $5 for adults and $3 for students. The student council wants to raise $450.

Question

Write an equation to find the number of each type of ticket they should sell.

Answer 1

Dal has the equation if that is all you want.

If you want to know how many of each to sell we can still get the answer(s).

90 $5 and 0 $3

87 $5 and 5 $3

84 $5 and 10 $3

81 $5 and 15 $3

78 $5 and 20 $3

75 $5 and 25 $3

72 $5 and 30 $3

69 $5 and 35 $3

66 $5 and 40 $3

63 $5 and 45 $3

60 $5 and 50 $3

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3 $5 and 145 $3

0 $5 and 150 $3

How many tickets do you have ?

Answer 2

Something seems wrong with the question - missing information.  Maybe that means they "need to sell"?

 

5a + 3s >= 450