A family pays $8.00 to park at a concert. Tickets for the concert cost $13.50 per person. The family spent a total of $89.00 for parking fees and tickets to the concert. The situation can be modeled by the equation 89 = 13.5n + 8, where n represents the number of tickets purchased. How many concert tickets did the family purchase?

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A family pays $8.00 to park at a concert. Tickets for the concert cost $13.50 per person. The family spent a total of $89.00 for parking fees and tickets to the concert. The situation can be modeled by the equation 89 = 13.5n + 8, where n represents the number of tickets purchased. How many concert tickets did the family purchase?

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
2 months ago

The family purchased 6 concert tickets.

To find the value of n, we can rearrange the equation to solve for n:

89 = 13.5n + 8
Subtract 8 from both sides:
81 = 13.5n
Divide by 13.5:
n = 6

Therefore, the family purchased 6 concert tickets.