Question

There were 524 tickets purchased at a major league baseball game. The general mission ticket cost $6.50, and the upper reserve tickets cost $8. The total amount of money spent was $3,941.50. How many of each kind of tickets were purchased?

a) General mission tickets: 300, Upper reserve tickets: 224
b) General mission tickets: 224, Upper reserve tickets: 300
c) General mission tickets: 500, Upper reserve tickets: 24
d) General mission tickets: 24, Upper reserve tickets: 500

Answer 1

The solution to finding the number of each type of ticket sold at a baseball game involves setting up and solving a system of equations based on the total number of tickets and the total amount of money spent. However, the initial calculation provided does not match any of the given options, indicating a possible error in the original problem or the calculation.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve the problem of determining how many general admission and upper reserve tickets were sold at a baseball game, we need to set up a system of equations based on the total number of tickets and the total amount of money spent on them.

Let's define the following variables:

y = number of upper reserve tickets

The total number of tickets sold was 524.

Using this information, we can create our equations:

x = 524 - 357

x = 167

This solution does not correspond with any of the proposed answers (a-d), meaning there is likely an error in the original problem or with the calculation. Step by step verification and solving are needed to determine the correct number of each type of ticket.