Question

One thousand tickets were sold for a baseball game there were one hundred more adult tickets sold than student tickets, and there were fou times as many tickets sold to students as to children. how many of each type of ticket were sold.

Answer 1

500 Adult tickets
400 Student tickets
100 Children tickets

Let x = adults
Let y = Students
Let z = children

Then set up this system of equations

x +y + z = 100
y - 4z = 0
x - y = 100

Solve using elimination and combination.