Question

The seventh grade class is putting on a variety show to raise money. It cost $700 to rent the

Answer 1

Well, you would need to compensate for the cost of the banquet hall adding an addition $700 to the goal of $1000.

If you need to raise at least $1700 you can write this inequality.

Let x represent the number of tickets sold.

15x≥1700

x≥ 114 (rounded to the nearest whole number because you can't sell half a ticket)

So, at least 114 tickets need to be sold.