Question

an amusement park sells child and adult tickets at a ratio of 8 to 1 on Saturday they sold 147 more child tickets than adult tickets how many tickets did the amusement park sell on Saturday

Answer 1

189 tickets sold on Saturday.

Explanation:

Your ratio of 8:1 is children's tickets to adult tickets.

There are 8 times as many children tickets sold as adult tickets.

Let c = # children's tickets

Let a = # adult tickets

8a = a + 147

subtract a from both sides

7a = 147

divide on both sides by 7

a = 147/7

find number of adult tickets

a = 21 adult tickets

multiply the number of adult tickets by 8 to find children's tickets 21*8=168

168+21=189 tickets sold on Saturday.