Joseph wants to buy tickets for the baseball game and a team hat to wear to the game. He has $34.25. If the hat costs $12.50 and tickets cost $7.25 each, how many tickets can he buy

Answer 1

To find out how many tickets Joseph can buy, we first need to determine how much money he has left after purchasing the hat.

1. Subtract the cost of the hat from his total amount:

   \[ 34.25 - 12.50 = 21.75 \]

   Joseph has $21.75 left after buying the hat.

2. Next, we need to find out how many tickets he can buy with the remaining amount. Each ticket costs $7.25. We can find the number of tickets by dividing the remaining amount by the price of each ticket:

   \[ \frac{21.75}{7.25} \approx 3 \]

   To confirm, we can multiply the number of tickets by the price per ticket:

   \[ 3 \times 7.25 = 21.75 \]

   This means Joseph can buy exactly 3 tickets.

Thus, Joseph can buy 3 tickets.