Question

A total of 627 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 73 fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Answer 1

350

Explanation:

Let "a" represent the number of adult tickets sold and "s" represent the number of student tickets sold. We can set up the following equation to represent the information given:

a + s = 627

s = a - 73

Substituting the second equation into the first equation gives us:

a + (a - 73) = 627

2a - 73 = 627

2a = 700

a = 350

Thus, there were 350 adult tickets sold.