Question

The Mathville Circus sold a total of 300 tickets for a total of $700. Adult tickets cost $5 each and children tickets cost $3 each. Which system of equations could be used to find the number of each type of ticket sold?

Use a = adult tickets and c = children tickets

Just need the equation to solve

Answer 1

A + C = 300

5A + 3C = 700

Explanation:

We can let A represent the total number of adult tickets and C represent the total number of children tickets.

# of adult tickets + # of children tickets = total number of tickets (300)

We multiply the total number of adult tickets sold by 5 to find the total revenue earned from adult tickets.

Similarly, we multiply the total number of children tickets sold by 3 to find the total revenue earned from children tickets.

Revenue from adult tickets + revenue from children tickets = total revenue ($700).