A theater sells t tickets at a price of p dollars each. The theater conducts a survey and predicts that if the price of each ticket is changed by $2, the number of tickets sold will change by 15 tickets. If n is the number of times the theater changes the ticket price by $2the expression (p + 2n)(t - 15n) can represent the theater's total revenue, in dollars . In this expression , what does (t - 15n) represent ?

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A theater sells t tickets at a price of p dollars each. The theater conducts a survey and predicts that if the price of each ticket is changed by $2, the number of tickets sold will change by 15 tickets. If n is the number of times the theater changes the ticket price by $2the expression (p + 2n)(t - 15n) can represent the theater's total revenue, in dollars . In this expression , what does (t - 15n) represent ?

 

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