SOLUTION: 1. For a rollerblading party there are 50 tickets available. Jason buys 6 tickets and Heather buys three times as many as Jason bought. How many tickets are left to be sold?

Question 1084939: 1. For a rollerblading party there are 50 tickets available. Jason buys 6 tickets and Heather buys three times as many as Jason bought. How many tickets are left to be sold?

Answer by emathwiz(15) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let's let Heather's amount of tickets bought be h Jason's be j and the amount remaining be r. Set up the equations like this:
j=6
h=3j
50= j+h+r Jason's value is given so let's fill in the values:
h=3(6)
50= 6+18+r
50= 24+r Subtract 24 to both sides.
26=r

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