Question

The talent show committee sold a total of 530 tickets in advance. Student tickets cost $3 each and the adult tickets cost $4 each. If the total receipts were $1740, how many of each type of ticket were sold?

Choose the correct set of equations that would be used to solve this problem.

Answer 1

The answer is the third choice.

Explanation:

S + A = 530 Is telling us about the total number of tickets sold. It has nothing to do with the cost of the tickets.

Since Student tickets cost 3, the 3 would go with the variable s for students and the 4 goes with the cost of adults so the a would go with 4. This second equation is looking at the money brought it. If we multiple the number of adults by 4 dollars and the students by 3 dollars we come up with the money that came in 1740.