Question

A movie theater is selling adult tickets for $10 each and senior tickets for $7 each. The total revenue earned by the movie theater is $140 for a particular day. Let the variable a be the number of adult tickets sold and the variable s be the number of senior tickets sold. Write an equation in Standard Form to describe all possible numbers of adult tickets and senior tickets sold.

a) 10a + 7s = 140
b) 10s + 7a = 140
c) 7a - 10s = 140
d) 7s - 10a = 140

Answer 1

To describe the relationship between adult and senior movie ticket sales and total revenue, the correct equation is 10a + 7s = 140, with 'a' and 's' representing the number of adult and senior tickets respectively.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asked is a basic algebra problem involving writing an equation to describe the relationship between the number of adult and senior movie tickets sold and the total revenue. The correct equation that represents this relationship is 10a + 7s = 140, where a is the number of adult tickets and s is the number of senior tickets. This equation is written in Standard Form as requested.