Question

The school play is selling tickets where tickets for children are $3.50 each and tickets for

adults are $5.00 each. A total of 85 tickets were sold, raising a total of $377. Set up and solve
a system to determine how many of each type of ticket was sold.

Answer 1

System of equations:

3.5c + 5a = 377

c + a = 85

Solved:

(53, 32)

Explanation:

32 children's tickets were sold and 53 adults tickets were sold.