The dance committee of Pine Bluff Middle School earns $72 from a bake sale and will earn $4 for each ticket they sell to the Spring Fling dance. The dance will cost $400.
Write an inequality to determine the number, t, of tickets the committee could sell to have money left over after they pay for this year's dance.
What is the solution set of the inequality?
The inequality is:
4t + 72 > 400
where t represents the number of tickets sold.
To find the solution set, we first need to solve for t:
4t + 72 > 400
4t > 328
t > 82
Therefore, the solution set is t > 82. This means that the dance committee needs to sell more than 82 tickets in order to have money left over after paying for the dance.