Question

For the school concert band performance, student tickets cost $8 each and adult tickets cost $12 each. The sellers collected $3,200 from 300 tickets sold. How many adult tickets and student tickets were sold?

Answer 1

two eq.
8x + 12y = 3200......1.
x + y = 300........2.
on solving both the eq. we get.
x= 100 and y = 200
which means adult ticket 200
and student ticket 100 sold

Answer 2

200 adult tickets were sold, and 100 student tickets were sold