Question

Your thrteater company sells tickets to their holiday showing off the nutcracker. Tickets cost $5 each. Tickets for adults cost $8 each. The total sales on opening night is $720. Write an equation to show the total sales as a combanation of kid tickets and adult tickets sold.

Answer 1

5x + 8y = 720

Explanation:

Let the :

Number of kid tickets sold = x

Number of adult tickets sold = y

Hence:

Tickets for kids cost $5 each.

Tickets for adults cost $8 each.

The total sales on opening night is $720.

The equation to show the total sales as a combanation of kid tickets and adult tickets sold is:

$5 × x + $8 × y = $720

5x + 8y = 720

Therefore, the equation to show the total sales as a combanation of kid tickets and adult tickets sold is

5x + 8y = 720