Question

At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.80 and adult admission is $9.60. On Thursday, 167 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1322.00. How many adult tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

93 adult tickets

Explanation:

Let 'a' represent the number of adult tickets sold. Then total revenue was ...

9.60a +5.80(167 -a) = 1322

3.80a = 353.40 . . . . . . . . . . subtract 968.60, collect terms

a = 93 . . . . . . . . . . divide by 3.8

93 adult tickets were sold that day.

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74 child tickets were sold