Question

A total of 805 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 55 more student tickets

sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?
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II adult ticket

Answer 1

375 adult tickets were sold

Explanation:

We know that the total amount of tickets sold is 805 tickets so that is our sum.

Then we know that there were 55 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. Since we don't know the amount of student tickets, we will use x.

So you would use x+55 for the student tickets.

Now, we don't know how many adult tickets either so we will use x for the amount of adult tickets.

So now, our equation would be:

805= x+55+x

Simplify:

805= 2x+55

Subtract 55 from both sides:

750= 2x

Divide each side by 2 so that we get x by itself:

375=x

Since x equals 375, there were 375 adult tickets sold.