Question

The drama club is selling tickets to their play to raise money for the show's expenses. Each student ticket sells for $7.50 and each adult ticket sells for $10. The drama club must make no less than $1200 from ticket sales to cover the show's costs. Write an inequality that could represent the possible values for the number of student tickets sold,

s
s, and the number of adult tickets sold,
a
a, that would satisfy the constraint.

Answer 1

at least 160 students have to buy a ticket to cover the show's cost.

Explanation:

1200 divided by 7.50 = 160.