The Oviedo Thespians are planning 2% performances for their Florida review on two consecutive nights in January it will cost them $5,000 per night for the theater rental, event insurance and professional musicians but Theodore also take 10% of gross ticket sales how many tickets must they sell at $10 per ticket to raise $1,000 for their organization? Solution Let X be the No of Ticket sold So equation is as follows: 1000+10 %(10* X) = 10*X X =1000+ 0.1X X-0.1X =1,000 0.9X =1,000 X= 1111.11 ‘X’ Tickets to be Sold = 1,112 Tickets.