Question

Tickets to the college basketball game are $2.50 for students and $3 for general admission. If 54 people attended the last game and the box office collected $149, how many of each type of ticket did they sell?

Answer 1

• 28 general admission
• 26 student

Explanation:

Let g represent the number of general admission tickets sold. Then the revenue is ...

3g +2.50(54-g) = 149

.50g = 14 . . . . . . . . . . . subtract 135

g = 14/.5 = 28 . . general admission tickets sold

54-g = 26 . . . . . student tickets sold