Tony and Alice are trying to reduce the amount of television they watch. For every hour they watch television , they have to put $2.50 into savings. The table shows how many hours of television Tony and Alice have watched in the past two months.
Tony- 35.4 & 18.2
Alice- 21.8 & 26.6
Question:
Alice wants to use her savings at the end of the two months to buy concert tickets. If the tickets cost $17.50 each, how many tickets can she buy?
Can someone PLEEEEAAASE help me with this?
Add the number of hours she watched TV.
Multiply the sum by 2.5
Divide the product by 17.5.
Tony and Alice are trying to reduce the amount of television they watch. For every hour they watch television, they have to put $1.50 into savings. The table shows how many hours of television Tony and Alice have watched in the past two months.
Hours watched
in February Hours watched
in March
Tony 37.3 23.5
Alice 22.8 30.6
Tony wants to use his savings at the end of March to buy video games. The games cost $28.25 each. How many games can Tony buy?
Tony can buy
video games.
Sure, I'd be happy to help you with this! Let's calculate:
Tony has watched a total of 35.4 hours + 18.2 hours = 53.6 hours
Alice has watched a total of 21.8 hours + 26.6 hours = 48.4 hours
For every hour they watch, they need to save $2.50. So, Tony needs to save 53.6 hours × $2.50/hour = $134 in total.
Alice needs to save 48.4 hours × $2.50/hour = $121 in total.
Now, let's find out how many concert tickets Alice can buy:
If the concert tickets cost $17.50 each, Alice can buy $121 ÷ $17.50 = 6.91 tickets.
Well, unfortunately, you can't buy a fraction of a ticket, so Alice can only buy 6 tickets.
To find out how many concert tickets Alice can buy with her savings, we need to calculate the total amount of money Alice has saved in two months.
First, we need to calculate the total hours of television Alice has watched in the past two months. According to the table, Alice has watched 21.8 hours and 26.6 hours.
Next, we need to calculate the total amount of money Alice needs to save for each hour of television watched. According to the given information, Alice has to put $2.50 into savings for every hour of television watched.
To calculate the amount of money Alice has saved, we multiply the total hours of television watched by the amount she needs to save per hour:
Total amount saved = (21.8 + 26.6) hours × $2.50
Now, let's calculate the total amount saved:
Total amount saved = 48.4 hours × $2.50
Total amount saved = $121
Finally, we can determine how many concert tickets Alice can buy with her savings. The cost of each ticket is given as $17.50. To find out the number of tickets, we divide the total amount saved by the cost per ticket:
Number of tickets = $121 / $17.50
Using long division, we find:
Number of tickets = 6.91428571429
Since we cannot have a fraction of a ticket, Alice can buy 6 concert tickets with her savings.
Therefore, Alice can buy 6 concert tickets with her savings at the end of the two months.