Jillian’s school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation , where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold?
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Given:
b = 82
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Asked:
a = number of adult tickets sold = ?
Solution:
10.50(a) + 3.47(82) = 2071.50
solving for a:
a= [2071.5-3.47(82)]/10.50
a=168
FINAL ANSWER: There were 168 adult tickets sold.
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