In this investigation brian looks at the changes in movie ticket prices over the last 38 years.
Movie ticket math problem.
We have two equations from the problem.
Be careful to distinguish between the value of the items and the quantity of the items.
If i buy two tickets it s gonna be two times 10 50 or 21 00.
Using his scatter plot or his data students analyze rates of change make predictions about the future ticket costs guesses about past costs and try to create lines of best fit.
Word problems are challenging but rewarding once you learn how they re done.
So if i buy one ticket the price is going to be 10 50.
At a movie theater in windsor terrace the price of a child s ticket is half the price of an adult s ticket.
Ticket problems are word problems similar to coin problems and stamp problems as tickets may be denominated in specific values.
Since we want to find what fraction of did roger pay for his movie ticket and soda we add and to get.
And if we replace with we get a system of equations and the sum of the values of and is the percentage of.
So number of tickets.
Solving we get and.
And then price the total price.
A table can be useful for distinguishing between quantity and value in this type of word problems.
We re assuming i never buy the popcorn.