Question

Nine-hundred seven tickets were sold for a concert. Seven hundred eighty-nine people attended the concert

Part A: Write an equation for p, the number of people that bought tickets but did not attend.

Part B: How many people bought tickets but did not attend?

Answer 1

A: 907-789=p

B: 118 bought tickets but didn't go.

Explanation:

907 is the people that bought the tickets, you subtract the people that did go which is 789 which would give you the people that didn't go but still bought tickets.