Question

Box Seat tickets for the baseball game cost $4 each and General admission tickets cost $3 each. If 1787 people attended the game and the total amount sold was $5792, find the number of each kind of ticket sold.

Answer 1

• 431 box seats
• 1356 general admission

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of box seat tickets sold. Then (1787-x) is the number of general admission tickets sold and the total revenue is ...

4x +3(1787-x) = 5792

x = 5792 -3(1787) = 431 . . . collect terms; subtract 3·1787; box tickets sold

1787 -x = 1356 . . . . GA tickets sold

There were 431 Box Seat tickets and 1356 General Admission tickets sold.