Thread: Two grade 11 maths problems

1.) Tickets for a concert are available at two prices. The more expensive ticket is $30 more than the cheaper one. Find the cost of each type of ticket if a group can buy 10 more of the cheaper tickets than the expensive ones for $1800.

2.) The members of a club hire a bus for $2100. Seven members withdraw from the club and the remaining members have to pay $10 more each to cover the cost. How many members originally agreed to go on the bus?

Please explain simply and show working out, THANKS! i'd like to do more of these type problems also, so if anyone out there has some, please post them! THANKS AGAIN!

Originally Posted by andrew2322

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2.) The members of a club hire a bus for $2100. Seven members withdraw from the club and the remaining members have to pay $10 more each to cover the cost. How many members originally agreed to go on the bus?

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Good morning,

let x be the number of members then
(x-7) finally used the bus
let p be the original price for one ticket then
(p+10) is the new price.

With these conditions you get 2 equations:

.............[1]

.............[2]

From [1]: .............Plug in this term into the equation [2]:



Expand the brackets and multiply by x. You'll get a quadratic equation in x:

.............Solve for x. Only one of the 2 solution is valid!

Hey thanks for posting that, thats the exact same equation that i was able to create. I tried solving that quadratic equation by dividing through by 10 then factorising, but it doesnt work... please show me how. thanks

The equation does actually factorise which becomes much easier if you take the prime factor expansion of 1470. There are however, no shortage of methods for solving quadratics that are difficult to factorise. The easiest to use is probably the quadratic formula:

if then

Originally Posted by andrew2322

1.) Tickets for a concert are available at two prices. The more expensive ticket is $30 more than the cheaper one. Find the cost of each type of ticket if a group can buy 10 more of the cheaper tickets than the expensive ones for $1800.

2.) The members of a club hire a bus for $2100. Seven members withdraw from the club and the remaining members have to pay $10 more each to cover the cost. How many members originally agreed to go on the bus?

Please explain simply and show working out, THANKS! i'd like to do more of these type problems also, so if anyone out there has some, please post them! THANKS AGAIN!

1) is answered here: http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-he...blem-help.html

and here: http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-he...-problems.html

2) is answered here: http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-he...-problems.html

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