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?(1 point)

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Responses

2 tickets
2 tickets

3 tickets
3 tickets

1 ticket
1 ticket

6 tickets

Answer 1

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

1. Cost of the hat: $12.50
2. Total amount Joseph has: $34.25

Now, we calculate how much money he has left after buying the hat:

\[ \text{Money left} = \text{Total amount} - \text{Cost of the hat} = 34.25 - 12.50 = 21.75 \]

Next, we need to determine how many tickets he can buy with the remaining money. The cost of each ticket is $7.25.

Now we divide the money left by the cost of each ticket:

\[ \text{Number of tickets} = \frac{\text{Money left}}{\text{Cost of each ticket}} = \frac{21.75}{7.25} \]

Calculating that gives:

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

Therefore, Joseph can buy 3 tickets.

The correct response is: 3 tickets.