Your school is selling tickets for a band concert to raise money for a new gym.
a. Each ticket costs $3.50. Write a variable expression for the money raised by selling t tickets.
b. The band needs to use some of the money raised to pay for their new uniforms. Each new uniform costs $7.25. Write a variable expression for the cost of u new uniforms.
find the percent of decrease from 340 to 260 . round to the nearest tenth of a percent if necessary
a. To write a variable expression for the money raised by selling t tickets, we need to multiply the cost of each ticket ($3.50) by the number of tickets sold (t). This can be represented as the expression: 3.50t.
b. To write a variable expression for the cost of u new uniforms, we need to multiply the cost of each uniform ($7.25) by the number of uniforms needed (u). This can be represented as the expression: 7.25u.