Question

2. Faith was working admissions to the basketball game, where students cost $5 and adults are $7. If Faith made $500 dollars at the game on ticket sales when she sold 44 student tickets. Write and solve an equation in standard form to find the number of adult tickets sold.

Answer 1

Answer: 40

Explanation:

Let x be the number of adult tickets sold.

Given: Cost of each student ticket = $5

Cost of each adult ticket = $7

Cost of x adult tickets = 7x

If 44 student tickets were sold, money they got from it = 44 x (Cost of each student ticket)

= 44 x 5

= $220

Now, Total money made = 220+7x =500

`\Rightarrow\ 7x=500-220\\\\\Rightarrow\ 7x=280\\\\\Rightarrow\ x=(280)/(7)=40`

Hence, the number of adult tickets sold =40