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A total of 816 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 66 more students tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

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The number of adult tickets sold is the smaller of the two contributors to the sum, so is half the difference of these numbers:
(816 -66)/2 = 375

375 adult tickets were sold.
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