Cover Letter

My name is Adam from class Einstein. I’m here to present my

scholar challenge for today’s algebra Roundtables. I chose to

present SC1 because it was the interesting problem to do and

one of my favorite work I have done so far this year .

Scholar’s Challenge #6
 Choice A PSAL Playoff !

Sheepshead Bay football team has a home game coming . They have 800 tickets

available to be sold for the game , before the game day each ticket cost $6 and on

the actual game day each ticket sold for $9 . Their goal to get at least $5000

from 800 tickets that is sold before the game day and on the game day. So the

problem is asking me to find out how many tickets were sold before the game day

and on the game day ?

In this problem they saying that “the team has the a goal to raise at least

$5000 “ so it’s equal to $5000 or greater than $5000. And we don’t know how

many tickets were sold before the game day and on the actual game day so I have

to find how many tickets they sold before the game day and on the game day . So I

will use a guess and check to solve this problem and then equation .

Number of Total cost of Number of Total cost of Total tickets

tickets sold tickets sold tickets sold on the tickets sold
before the before the the actual sold on the
game day game day ( game day actual game Total money
each $6 ) day (each $9) earned

450 $2700 200 $1800 Tickets - 650

Money - $4500

520 $3120 150 $1350 Tickets - 670

Money - $4470
 570 $3420 100 $900 Tickets - 670
Money - $4320

650 $3900 80 $720 Tickets -730

Money - $4620

730 $4830 70 $630 Tickets - 800

Money - $5460

733 $4398 67 $603 Tickets -800

Money - $5001

I used a table to do guess and check to solve this problem but their is another

way I can also use to solve this problem which is with equations.

Let x represent the number of tickets for $6

Let y represent the number of tickets for $9

My equations would be :

x + y = 800

6x + 9y = 5000 Then I multiply by 9

x(9) + y(9)= 800(9)

9x + 9y = 7200

Now I will use elimination for this new equation .

9x + 9 Y = 7200

6x + 9y = 5000
 3x=2200

3 3

X =733.333333333 x = 733

733 x 6 = 4398

So now I know that they sold 733 tickets before the actual game day and they

earned $4398 for 733 sold tickets .Now I have to find how many tickets were sold

on the actual game day and how much money they earned from the rest tickets.

6x + 9y = 5000

6(733) + 9y = 5000

4398 + 9y = 5000

4398 4398

9y = 602

9 9

Y = 66. 888888 = 67

67 x 9 = 603

4398 + 603 = 5001

I found that they sold 67 tickets on the actual game day and they earned $ 603

from 67 sold tickets on the actual game day .

I found x which is the tickets sold before the game day by using substitution

and my answer was 733 tickets and $ 4398 . It was the 733 tickets were sold

before the game and $4398 was earned . For y I used elimination and my answer

was 67 tickets were sold on the game day and $ 603 was earned . Then I added

733 + 67 because it’s the total of 800 tickets were sold for the game and I

added $ 4398 + $ 603 and I got $5001 was earned from total of sold tickets .