you would have 9.375 pieces or 75/8 pieces, depends on how you look at it
I believe you're learning geometry. Anyways, here are examples of natural numbers: 1, 2, 3... Meanwhile, here are examples of whole numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3... Natural numbers are all the positive whole numbers. Whole numbers are quantities that are both positive and neutral, and don't include any fractions or decimals.
Here you are giving only the amount they want to raise (namely profit times number of magazines sold), and here you are also giving Money they want to raise... So clarifying, the money they want to raise, should include the money they will spend on buying the magazines (there is no statement saying they found them, or were given the magazines, so a cost should be involved)
Now if they are only making the count of "Field trip costs X amount of money, and given we have to make a profit of $5.5, How many must we sell?" then the equation should be n=X/5.5
Should the story be, how much money must they raise to have a profit of 5.5 on each magazine and still have enough for the field trip, then you have a different equation which varies only in adding the cost of each magazine, either case, M should be defined not as money they need to raise (cause here they will be short on their goal) but Money they must earn. And again, you should rewrite your equation to be:
M=Amount they must raise
C=Cost per magazine
n=Number of magazines
p=profit $5.5 per magazine
C+p=M/n
And rewriting the previous they should make:
n(C+p)=M -----> n(C+5.5)=M <span>m/n = 5.50 </span>
<span>m/n x n = 5.50 x n //// multiply each side by n </span>
<span>m = 5.5n</span>
Answer:
James bought 11 good tickets and 5 bad tickets.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given that:
Cost of each good ticket = $8
Cost of each bad ticket = $5
Total amount spent = $113
Total tickets bought = 16
Let,
x be the number of good tickets bought
y be the number of bad tickets bought
x+y=16 Eqn 1
8x+5y=113 Eqn 2
Multiplying Eqn 1 by 5
5(x+y=16)
5x+5y=80 Eqn 3
Subtracting Eqn 3 from Eqn 2
(8x+5y)-(5x+5y)=113-80
8x+5y-5x-5y=33
3x=33
Dividing both sides by 3
Putting x=11 in Eqn 1
11+y=16
y=16-11
y=5
Hence,
James bought 11 good tickets and 5 bad tickets.