A class is selling raffle tickets for $8 each to raise money for a field trip. They sold 125 tickets. The goal was to raise $1,000. How much money did the class raise? What piece of information was not necessary to solve the problem?

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A class is selling raffle tickets for $8 each to raise money for a field trip. They sold 125 tickets. The goal was to raise $1,000. How much money did the class raise? What piece of information was not necessary to solve the problem?

Welcome back. In this problem, we have a class selling raffle tickets for $$8 each to raise money for a field trip. They sold 125 tickets, and the goal was to raise 1000. We $$want to know how much money did the class raise, and we also want to know what piece of information was not necessary to solve the problem. So, let's start by focusing on the problem. We're being asked how much money did the class raise. So that's the problem that we want to solve. And we've been given three big key pieces of information. We're told that the tickets cost $$8 each. We're told that they sold 125 tickets, and we're told that the goal was to raise 1000. $$Now again, we want to try to use this information to figure out how much money did the class raise. To figure out how much money the class raised, we can take the price of each ticket, $$8 and multiply it by the number of tickets sold, 125. We end up getting 1000 so we $$can say that the class raised $$1000 for their trip. Now we can also see that that was equal to their goal, but we were never asked about their goal. We weren't asked if they were able to meet their goal. We were just asked how much money did they raise. So while we did have to use the price of the tickets and the number of tickets they sold, we actually didn't have to use the piece of information about their goal. So the extra piece of information here was that the goal of the fundraiser was to raise 1000. $$Great work

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A class is selling raffle tickets for \$8 each to raise money for a field trip. They sold 125 tickets. The goal was to raise \$1,000. How much money did the class raise? What piece of information was not necessary to solve the problem?

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