Question

A total of 587 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 63 fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Answer 1

'325 adult tickets' is the ACTUAL answer

Explanation:

I am editing this because I made a mistake beforehand

Let's say that x=adult tickets. If we subtract 63 tickets from adult tickets you get the number of children's tickets, so that means x+(x-63)=587. Or,

2x-63=587

Add 63 to both sides to get 2x=650. Divide it all by 2, and you get 325 adult tickets