Question

Tickets Sold Dollars Donated
10 5
20 10
30 15
40 20
50 25
The table represents the amount of money the local business will donate given the number of carnival tickets sold. Which operation can be applied to the tickets sold in order to find the number of dollars donated?



(1 point)
Responses

divide by 2
divide by 2

subtract 2
subtract 2

multiply by 2
multiply by 2

add 2

Answer 1

To find the amount of dollars donated based on the number of tickets sold from the given table, we can observe the relationship between the two columns:

- For every 10 tickets sold, $5 is donated.

This means that the dollars donated is directly proportional to the number of tickets sold. More precisely, we can see that the dollars donated can be calculated by taking the number of tickets sold (let's say \( x \)) and performing the following operation:

1. Divide the number of tickets sold by 2 and then multiply by 1 ($5 for every 10 tickets, which corresponds to 0.5 dollars for each ticket).

The correct operation to match the table is straightforward:

- If we take the tickets sold and **divide by 2**, we would also have to double the result in relation to how the donations are structured.

Let's look at the monetary input more clearly:

For example, when tickets sold are 10, we have:
\[ \text{Dollars Donated} = \frac{10}{2} = 5 \]
When tickets sold are 20:
\[ \text{Dollars Donated} = \frac{20}{2} = 10 \]

Thus, the correct operation to use for finding the number of dollars donated from the number of tickets sold is:

**divide by 2**.