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Your sports team needs to raise money for a trip to Canada for a tournament, and you decide to have a spaghetti fund fundraiser. You spend $60 on utensils (plates, cups, silverware, napkins) and $140 on food. You charge $8 per ticket. You need to raise $400 (after paying for your meal expenses) for your trip.

a) Set up an equation that models this information.


b) How many tickets do you need to sell?

Respuesta :

a.) 600=8x where x equals the number of tickets

You spent $200 on utensils and food, so that needs to be added to the $400 dollars you need to raise.

b.) Solve for x using the above equation:

x=75 tickets

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