Question

Tickets to the zoo cost $8 per child and $12 per adult. The zoo sold $5500 in tickets yesterday.

a. Write an equation to model the ticket sales for yesterday. Use c to represent child tickets
and a to represent adult tickets.
b. 125 more child tickets than adult tickets were sold. That can be modeled using the equatic
c = 125 + a. How many child tickets were sold? How many adult tickets were sold? Show
your work.

Answer 1

a. 12a + 8c = 5500

b. 225 adult tickets

350 child tickets

Explanation:

a. 12a + 8c = 5500

b. 12a + 8(125 + a) = 5500

12a + 1000 + 8a = 5500

20a = 4500

a = 225 adult tickets

125 + a = 125 + 225 = 350 child tickets