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A total of 246 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult
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A total of 246 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold?

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So here are your variables:

# of adult tickets= x
# of student tickets 2x

so x+2x= 246 and solve
3x=246
x=82 adult tickets were sold
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