Question

Admission to a baseball game is $3.00 for general admission and $3.50 for reserved seats. The receipts were $2652.50 for 842 paid admissions. How many of each ticket were sold?

Answer 1

The Solution:

Given:

General admission = $3.00

Reserved seat = $3.50

Required:

Find the number of general admission tickets sold and that of the reserved seat tickets.

Let the number of general admission tickets = x

And the number of reserved seat tickets = y.

We have the following equations:

`\begin{gathered} 3x+3.5y=2652.5 \\ x+y=842 \end{gathered}`

Solve simultaneously by the Substitution Method:

Answer:

The number of general admissions is 589 tickets

The number of reserved seats is 253 tickets.