SOLUTION: A small art museum charges $5 for an adult ticket and $3 for a student ticket. At the end of the day the museum sold 81 tickets and made $371. How many of each type of ticket did

Question 1165701: A small art museum charges $5 for an adult ticket and $3 for a student ticket. At the end of the day the museum sold 81 tickets and made $371. How many of each type of ticket did the museum sell?

Answer by ikleyn(52783) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You introduce x = the number of adult tickets.

Then the number of the student tickets is 81-x.


Then you write the total money equation


    5x + 3*(81-x) = 371 dollar.


From the equation, you get  x =  = 64.


ANSWER.  64 adult tickets and the rest, 81 - 64 = 17 are the student tickets.


CHECK.  64*5 + 17*3 = 371 total dollars.   ! Correct !

Solved.

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