SOLUTION: A total of 372 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tick

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Question 1147064: A total of 372 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold?
Found 2 solutions by solver91311, ikleyn:
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Let represent the number of adult tickets. Then must represent the number of student tickets sold. So:



Solve for


John

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Answer by ikleyn(52815)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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If you read the problem ATTENTIVELY and think on what you read, it should be clear to you that 

     the number of adult tickets is    of the total number of tickets.

The equation says the same thing.


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