Question

A family pays $8.00 to park at a concert. Tickets for the concert cost $13.50 per person. The family spent a total of $89.00 for parking fees and tickets to the concert. The situation can be modeled by the equation 89 = 13.5n + 8, where n represents the number of tickets purchased. How many concert tickets did the family purchase? tickets

Answer 1

$89= 13.50 n+8$
13.50n=89$-8$
13.50n=81$
n=(81/13.50)$
n=6
hence,the family byed 6 tickets in all