500 tickets being sold at 2.00 per ticket but you can get 3 tickets for 5.00 if all the tickets are sold at 3 for 5.00 how much money will be earned when all tickets are sold

2 answers

The tickets can not all be sold in groups of 3.

500 / 3 = 166.667
Use ratios, fractions, and tape diagrams to get the answer of $194 dollars. I'm a sixth grader who figured this out in under 3 minutes.