Salar's drama class is performing a play. he wants to buy as many tickets as he can afford. if tickets cost $3.50 each and he has $15.25 to spend, how many tickets can he buy?

To find out how many tickets Salar can buy, we would need to divide the money he has, for spending, by the cost of each ticket-first. This would look like:

Or

When simplified, the quotient (answer for a division problem) would be 4.357143.

4.357143 is not a whole number. Let's round it to nearest whole number: 4. After all, Salar can't exactly buy 4.357143 tickets. He would have to tear a ticket.

So, with $15.25, Salar can buy 4 tickets for the play.