Question

a total of $689 tickets were so far School play they were either adult tickets or student tickets there were 61 fewer students tickets so then adult tickets how many adult tickets were sold​

Answer 1

• 375 adult tickets
• 314 student tickets

Explanation:

You want to know the number of adult ticket sold if there were 61 fewer student tickets sold and the total number sold was 689.

Setup

Let a = the number of adult tickets sold. Then a-61 is the number of student tickets sold, and the total is ...

a + (a -61) = 689

Solution

Simplifying, we get

2a -61 = 689

2a = 750 . . . . . . add 61

a = 375 . . . . . . . divide by 2

The number of adult tickets sold was 375.

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Additional comment

The number of student tickets is 375-61 = 314.