Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer:

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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