Question

Jillian's school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales

for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50 +3.750 - 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b
is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students
attended, how may adult tickets were sold?
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Answer 1

168 adult tickets were sold

Explanation:

$10. 50 per adults

$3. 75 per student

There are 82 students..

.. So...

$3. 75 × 82 = $307. 50

Overall the amount of money made was $2071.50

If you subtract $307.50 from $2071. 50 you will get $1,764

We now need to find out how many adults bought tickets by dividing $1, 764 by the price adults have to pay so..

Amount of adults who bought tickets are

= $1, 764 ÷ $10. 50

= 186 adults