Question

the box office sold a total of 1762 tickets. They were 241 balcony seat tickets sold. How many regular seat tickets were sold?

Answer 1

x=regular seat tickets
x+241=1762
x=1762-241
x=1521

Answer 2

1721 regular seat tickets were sold.

Explanation:

Let's call X the number of tickets for regular seats. The relationship between regular tickets sold and balcony tickets sold, is given by:

X + 241 = 1762

Transposing terms in the previous equation, you get:

X = 1762-241 = 1521. Therefore, 1721 regular seat tickets were sold.