Question

Tickets for seniors prom cost $25 for individual tickets and $40 for couples tickets. They collected a total of 2500 from ticket sale. They so 70 tickets how manny individual ticket did they sale

Answer 1

Answer: 20

Explanation:

Given

The cost of an individual ticket is $25

The cost of a couple's ticket is $40

The total sale is $2500

total ticket sold is 70

Suppose there are x individuals and y couples

`\therefore x+y=70\quad \ldots(i)\\\\25x+40y=2500\quad \ldots(ii)\\\text{Solving }(i)\ \text{and}\ (ii)\ \text{we get}`

`x=20,y=50`

So, they sold 20 tickets of the individual.