Question

The price of each ticket to the spring choral concert is $3. Melissa andAshley buy a bunch of tickets for their family, and split the cost of thetickets between the two of them. Write an expression to represent howmuch each woman pays. Define any variables.*

Answer 1

Given:

The price of each ticket, p=$3.

Let x be the amount paid by each of them.

Let y be the number of tickets bought by them.

Ashley and Melissa split the cost of tickets.

Now, the expression for the amount paid by each of them is,

$\begin{gathered} x=\frac{py}{2} \\ x=\frac{3y}{2} \end{gathered}$

Hence, the expression for the amount paid by each woman is x=3y/2, where x is the amount paid by each woman and y is the number of tickets.