For the Hawks' 80 basketball games next year, you can buy separate tickets for each game at $9 each, or you can buy a season ticket for $580. At most how many games could you attend at the $9 price before spending more than the cost of a season ticket?

2 Answers
Jun 26, 2018

64 games

Explanation:

[$580]/9=64 4/9
After watching 64 games you would spend less than the season ticket but upon watching the 65^(th) game you would have paid more.

Jun 26, 2018

65

Explanation:

Let x be the number of games.

We want to find when 9x<=580

(9x)/9<=580/9

x<=64+4/9

:. The 65th game is the first one more expensive to buy individually.