Question

At a concert , tickets cost either $40 or $60. 700 tickets were sold at a cost of $33600, find how many $40 tickets were sold

Answer 1

420 $40 tickets.

Explanation:

Here is the explanation.

1. As 700 tickets cost a total of $33600, the average cost of each ticket is $48.

2. As there are 700 total tickets with each costing $40 or $60, we can use the total cost ($33600) to define the amount of each ticket.

3. If there were to be 420 $40 tickets, there will be 280 $60 tickets.

4. This means that the cost of each price of tickets ($40 and $60) will be distributed evenly among the total price, each costing $16800.

5. 420 x 40=16800 280x60=16800

6. There are 420 $40 tickets sold at the concert.

Hope the explanation helps!