Question

At the movie theater child admission is $5.40 and adult admission is $9.40 on Saturday 151 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1023.40 how many adult tickets were sold that day

Answer 1

52

Explanation:

Let "a" represent the number of adult tickets sold. Then revenue was ...

9.40a +5.40(151 -a) = $1023.40

4.00a + 815.40 = 1023.40

a = (1023.40 -815.40)/4.00 = 208/4 . . . . . subtract 815.40, divide by 4

a = 52

52 adult tickets were sold that day.