Question

At the city museum, child admission is $5.10 and adult admission is $8.20. On Tuesday, 148 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1036.90. How many child

tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

To solve the problem, set up an equation using the price of child and adult tickets and the total number of tickets sold. Solve the equation to find the number of child tickets sold.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, let's assume the number of child tickets sold as 'x' and the number of adult tickets sold as '148 - x' (since the total number of tickets sold is 148).

The total sales from child tickets would be 'x' multiplied by $5.10, and the total sales from adult tickets would be '148 - x' multiplied by $8.20.

According to the problem, the total sales made that day was $1036.90. We can set up the equation:

5.10x + 8.20(148 - x) = 1036.90

Solving this equation will give us the value of 'x', which represents the number of child tickets sold that day.