Question

A student theatre charges $9.50 per ticket. The theater has already sold 70 tickets. Write and solve an inequality that represents how many more tickets the theater needs to sell to earn at least $1000.

Answer 1

To make the inequality, we will use the ≥ sign to determine how many more tickets we will need. Before we write the inequality, let's see how much money was already made by the present tickets. 70 x 9.50 = $665.
We can write the inequality as $665 + $9.50t ≥ $1000 where t is the number of tickets sold. Now we can solve
$665 + $9.50t ≥ $1000, subtract 665
$9.50t ≥ $335. Now isolate the t by divide 9.50 to both sides
t ≥ 35.26 which we can round up to 36 because you cant sell 35.26 tickets. 
So you need at least 36 more tickets to earn at least $1000