Question

9. Elena is selling tickets for an amusement

park. She sells triple the number of
student tickets as adult tickets and
she sells 8 fewer senior tickets than
adult tickets
a Write expressions for the number of
adult tickets, student tickets, and
senior tickets, using a as the number of adult tickets
b. Using your answers from part b, write
a simplified expression for the total
number of tickets Elena sells
1
C. Elena sells 15 adult tickets, does
she sell at least 100 total tickets?
Show your work

Answer 1

Explanation:

A) a = students tickets

3a = adult tickets

3a+8 = senior tickets

B) a + 3a + 3a + 8 = Tt

C) 15 + 3(15) + 3(15) + 8 = 113

Therefore, she sells at least 100 total tickets