Question

Adult tickets to a play cost $2.25 each and student tickets cost $1.25 each. Suppose there are twice as many student tickets sold as adult tickets. If the income from the play was $1,425, how many of each type of ticket were sold?

adult tickets
student tickets
please help

Answer 1

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Answer:

• 300 adult tickets
• 600 student tickets

Explanation:

We can group tickets into a group that has 2 student tickets and 1 adult ticket for a price of 2($1.25) +2.25) = $4.75. The number of these groups sold is ...

$1425/4.75 = 300

300 adult tickets and 600 student tickets were sold.