Question

For the school play, students tickets cost $2, and adult tickets cost $5. A total of 500 tickets were sold for $1480. How many were adult tickets?

Answer 1

160

Explanation:

Let a = number of adult tickets.

Let s = number of student tickets.

a + s = 500

5a + 2s = 1480

s = 500 - a

5a + 2(500 - a) = 1480

5a + 1000 - 2a = 1480

3a = 480

a = 160

Answer: 160