Question

Holly bought 23 tickets to the baseball game. She got a group rate that gave her $4 off of the regular ticket price for each ticket. The total cost was $184. What was the regular price for each ticket? Enter your answer in the box. $

Answer 1

Answer:

I got it wrong answering $12, my school said it was $10.

I have no idea how though, they didn't show me their equation.

Answer 2

Answer:

The regular price of the ticket was $12.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let us call $P$ the regular price of the tickets, and if she had bought tickets at this price, the total cost would have been

$23P$.

But Holly got $4 off the regular ticket price, that means one ticket cost her

$P-4$

and if she bought 23 tickets it cost her

$23(P-4)$

and we are told this equals $184; therefore we have

$23(P-4)=184$

now we solve this equation the following way:

$23(P-4)=184$

$23P-4(23)=184$

$23P-92=184$

$23P=276$

$\boxed{ P=12}$

Thus, the regular price was $12.