Fundraising for a School Event

Question

Your class is organizing a fundraiser to support a school event, and you need to determine how many items to sell and how much money to raise.
Scenario:
You need to raise $800 for the event.
The class decides to sell tickets to a school play for $10 each and snacks for $2 each.
Each student will sell 5 tickets and snacks, and you have 25 students in the class.
How much money will the class raise from selling snacks alone?

Answer 1

To determine how much money the class will raise from selling snacks alone, we need to calculate the total number of snacks sold by all students.

Each student sells 5 snacks, and there are 25 students in the class.

The total number of snacks sold is calculated as follows:

\[ \text{Total snacks sold} = \text{Number of students} \times \text{Snacks sold per student} \] \[ \text{Total snacks sold} = 25 \text{ students} \times 5 \text{ snacks/student} = 125 \text{ snacks} \]

Now, we can find out how much money will be raised from selling these snacks. Since each snack is sold for $2, the total amount raised from snacks can be calculated as:

\[ \text{Total money raised from snacks} = \text{Total snacks sold} \times \text{Price per snack} \] \[ \text{Total money raised from snacks} = 125 \text{ snacks} \times 2 \text{ dollars/snack} = 250 \text{ dollars} \]

Therefore, the class will raise $250 from selling snacks alone.