Question

At the movie theatre, child admission is 6.20 and adult admission is $9.90. On Tuesday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total

sales of $1419.80. How many child tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

31

Explanation:

For every 4 adult tickets sold, only 1 child ticket was sold. So the cost of 4 adult tickets and 1 child ticket is:

4 x 9.9 + 1 x 6.2 = 45.80

Divide the total sales by 45.80: 1419.80 ÷ 45.80 = 31

So there were 31 lots of "4 adult tickets and 1 child ticket" sold.

Therefore, there were 31 x 4 = 124 adult tickets sold

and 31 x 1 = 31 child tickets sold