Question

Advance tickets for a school play went on sale. The price of each student ticket was $4 and everyone else paid $5. On the first day, no more than $80 in tickets were sold. Describe and explain the possible values of s, the number of student tickets sold, and e, the number of tickets sold to nonstudents.

Answer 1

89 tickets were sold in total.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

Partial and negative tickets cannot be sold, so the minimum number values of e and s are 0. If s = 0, then e = 16, and if e = 0, then s = 20. Therefore, the values of s are whole numbers from 0 to 20 and the values of e are whole numbers between 0 and 16. The greatest number of student tickets sold was 20 and the greatest number of nonstudent tickets sold was 16.