Question

at the movie theatre, child admission is $6.10 and adult admission is $9.70. On Monday , 146 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1074.20.HOw many adult tickets were sold that day ?

Answer 1

51

Explanation:

Let c be the number of child tickets sold.

Let a be the number of adult tickets sold.

From the information given from the question, we can deduce:

6.10c + 9.70a = 1074.20 - Equation 1

c + a = 146 - Equation 2

From here, we can use the substitution method in solving simultaneous equations to find a and c. We will use Equation 2 as the base.

c = 146 - a - Equation 2A

We will then substitute equation 2A into Equation 1 to find a.

6.10(146-a) + 9.70a = 1074.20

890.6 - 6.10a + 9.70a = 1074.20

890.6 + 3.6a = 1074.20

3.6a = 1074.20 - 890.6

3.6a = 183.6

a =
`(183.6)/(3.6)`

a = 51

Therefore we know that 51 adult tickets were sold that day.

After that you can substitute a into equation 2 to find c.