Question

There are 4 people who want to share 22 ride tickets for the carnival. Each person will get an equal number of tickets. How many tickets will each person get? How many tickets will be left over?

Answer 1

To find out how many tickets each person will get when sharing 22 ride tickets among 4 people, you need to divide the total number of tickets by the number of people.

\[
\text{Tickets per person} = \frac{22 \text{ tickets}}{4 \text{ people}} = 5.5
\]

Since each person cannot receive a fraction of a ticket in this context, we need to distribute whole tickets. Therefore, we calculate how many whole tickets can be given:

\[
\text{Whole tickets per person} = \lfloor 5.5 \rfloor = 5
\]

Now, we can calculate how many tickets will be distributed:

\[
\text{Total tickets distributed} = 5 \text{ tickets/person} \times 4 \text{ people} = 20 \text{ tickets}
\]

To find out how many tickets are left over, we subtract the total distributed from the total tickets:

\[
\text{Leftover tickets} = 22 \text{ total tickets} - 20 \text{ tickets distributed} = 2 \text{ tickets}
\]

Therefore, each person will get 5 tickets, and there will be 2 tickets left over.