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?

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Answer 1

do 3.75× 82 to get 307.50 then you subtract that from 2071.50 that would be 168 A

Answer 168 adult tickets sold

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