Question

Children's tickets to the zoo cost $9 each, and adult tickets cost $16 each. On Monday, the zoo sold a total of 95 tickets and made $1,380 on ticket sales. Which of the following systems of equations could be used to find out how many of each ticket type was sold? Let a equal the number of adult tickets, and let c equal the number of child tickets.

(A) a+c=1,380, 9c+16a=95

(B) a+c=95, 9a+16c = 1,380

(C) a+c=95, 9c+16a = 1,380

(D) a+c=1,380, 9a+16c = 95​

Answer 1

B

Explanation:

the total number of adult/ children tickets sold was 95 , then

a + c = 95

the ticket sales totalled $1380 , then

9a + 16c = 1380

the system of equations is

a + c = 95 , 9a + 16c = 1380