Question

At the movie theatre, child admission is $6.60 and adult admission is $9.80 . On Thursday, 182 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1508.40 . How many adult tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

96

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of adult tickets sold. Then (182-x) is the number of child tickets sold. The total sales is then ...

... 6.60·(182 -x) +9.80·x = 1508.40

... 3.20x = 1508.40 -1201.20 . . . . . simplify, subtract 1201.20

... 307.20/3.20 = x = 96 . . . . . . . . divide by the coefficient of x

96 adult tickets were sold that day.