If you can buy three raffle tickets for $5, how many tickets can you buy for $55? I need to know to different ways to solve this problem...

1 answer

Method 1:
5/3 = 1.67 each
55/1.67 = 32.9 = 32 tickets for $55.00

Method 2:
Set up a proportion, cross multiply and solve for x.

3/5 = x/55