Question

Jillian's school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales

for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50 +3.750 = 2071.50,
where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b
is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students
attended, how may adult tickets were sold?
adult tickets
Hi

Answer 1

b= 322.8

Explanation:

10.50a + 3.75b = 2071.50

10.50 (82) + 3.75b = 2071.50

861 + 3.75b = 2071.50

-861 -861

3.75b = 1210.5

/3.75 /3.75

b = 322.8