Question

Jillian school is selling tickets for a play the tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for student s the ticket sales for opening night total 2071.50.the equation$10.50 a plus $3.75 b equal 2071.50where a is the number of adult tickets sold and be is the number of students to get sold can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets a2 students attended how many adults tickets were sold?

Answer 1

The cost of the Adult tickets is: $10.50

and for students it is: $3.75

Representing with “a” the number of adult tickets sold, and with “b” the number of student tickets sold, we can write the equation for the total amount collected as:

10.5 a + 3.75 b = 2071.50

Therefore, if we know the number of students that attended “b”, we can solve for the number of adults “a” in the equation:

a = (2071.50 – 3.75 b ) / 10.5