Question

adult tickets to the fall play cost $8 and student tickets cost $4. the drama class sold 20 more adult tickets than student tickets. if the class collected $880 from ticket sales, how many adult tickets were sold

Answer 1

let us repersent the number of student tickets, then 's + 20' is repersenting the number of adult tickets.

The equation for the total tickets can be experssed as the following:

4.00 * s + 8.00 * ( s + 20 ) = 880.00

solving for 's=60', there were 60 student tickets.

60 + 20 = 80

there were 80 adult tickets.

Hope helps!-Aparri