Question

Ticket sales a full price ticket for a college basketball game cost $2.50, and a student ticket cost $1.75. If 585 tickets were sold, and the total receipts were $1,217.25, how many tickets were student tickets

Answer 1

327

Explanation:

Let s represent the number of student tickets sold. Then total revenue is ...

1.75s + 2.50(585-s) = 1217.25

Subtracting 1217.25 and collecting terms, we have ...

-0.75s +245.25 = 0

Dividing by 0.75 gives ...

-s + 327 = 0

s = 327 . . . . . . . add s to both sides of the equation

327 tickets were student tickets.