If you pay a one-time fee of $30, you can purchase gold tickets for your local minor league baseball team for only $3 a game. Regular tickets sell at the stadium for $6. How many gold tickets would you need to buy to equal the cost of regular tickets?

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anonymous · Answer

Gold tickets cost 30$ + 3$ per game.
Regular tickets cost $6 per game.

Lets call the number of tickets n.

You are trying to find how many tickets you would need to buy to equal the cost. Therefore you can set what you know equal to each other:

Gold Tickets = Regular Tickets
30 + 3n = 6n
      - 3n = -3n
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30 = 3n
10 = n