Question

Symphony tickets cost $16 for adults and $8 for students. A total of 634 tickets worth $8432 were sold. How many adult and student tickets were sold?

Answer 1

Let the number of adults be x then the number of students will be 634 - x.

Given, 16x+ 8(634-x) = 8432

           16x + 5072 - 8x = 8432

            8x + 5072 = 8432

           8x = 3360

            x = 420

The number of adults are 420 and the number of students will be 634 - 420 = 214.