Question

A youth club held a pancake breakfast to raise money for a trip. Tickets were $3 for children and $5.50 for adults. If 263 tickets were sold and the group took in $1,254, find the number of adults and the number of children that attended the breakfast.

Answer 1

77 children and 186 adults

Explanation:

After a LONG time testing out numbers, I finally found two numbers. What I did was used the equation 3x + 5.5y = 1254. I kept filling in two numbers that can add to 263. For example, I filled in the variables with 77 and 186. Like this: 3(77) + 5.5(186) = 1254. 77 times 3 equals 231 and 186 times 5.5 equals 1023. Add those two numbers together to get 1254. So, there were 77 children and 186 adults.