Question

200 tickets were sold for a school play. Adult tickets cost $8 and student tickets dest $5. A total of $1381 was collected. How many student tickets were sold?

Answer 1

138 tickets were sold to adults and 62 to children.

Explanation: Let x be the number of tickets sold to adults. If there are 200 tickets sold in total, the number of tickers sold to children is 200-x. To solve this, we setup the equation and it should look like this:

8x+5(200-x)= 1414

8x+1000-5x=1414

3x=414

x=138

138 tickets were sold to adults and 62 to children.