Problema Solution

tickets for the school concert were $1.50 each for students and $3 each for others. Five hundred tickets were sold in all and receipts exceeded $1000. What can you conclude about the number of student tickets sold?

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total no. of tickets sold=500

Money collected>1000$

Ticket Cost for Student=1.5$

ticket cost for others=3$

let no of students who bought the ticket =x

then no of.'others' who bought the ticket =500-x.

under given constraints the following inequality can be developed

1.5x + (500-x)*3 > 1000

1500 - 1.5x > 1000

1.5x < 500

x < 500*(2/3)

x < 333.33

since no of people cannot be a fractional no.

hence minimum value of x =334

because with 333 Students the collection wont exceed a 1000$,actually it is exactly a 1000$ thousand dollars if 333 students purchase the tickets.