Question

six friends are going to a play. The theater offers a $4 discount toward each $15 ticket. a. Find the total amount of money the friends will spend on the play

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways you could solve this... let's try this way first:

If each ticket costs $15, but the theater is giving a $4 discount for each ticket, then how much does each person have to pay? They don't have to pay the full $15, right? So how much do they pay after they get the discount?

Answer 2

15 x 6 = 90
6 x 4 = 24
90 - 24 = 66$ in all.
They each pay 11$

Answer 3

The question asks for the total amount of money, so I wouldn't answer $11... that's the per-person price after discount.

Answer 4

I meant 66$ in all.

Answer 5

But you do have the total there... I just didn't want @foreveryoung615 to miss it.

Answer 6

Yes, @foreveryoung615, @ValentinaT showed the other way to solve.

One way is find the price per person after discount... 15 - 4 = 11
and then multiply by the number of people to get the total: 11 x 6 = 66

@ValentinaT showed that you get the same answer if you find the total full price first, by multiplying the full ticket price by # of people: 15 x 6 = 90
and then multiplying the discount by # people: 6 x 4 = 24
and then subtracting the total discount from the total full price: 90 - 24 = 66