SOLUTION: Marc sold 563 tickets for the school play. Student tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $6. Marc’s sales totaled $2840. How many adult tickets and how many student tickets did Ma

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Question 215565: Marc sold 563 tickets for the school play. Student tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $6. Marc’s sales totaled $2840. How many adult tickets and how many student tickets did Marc sell?
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Marc sold 563 tickets for the school play. Student tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $6. Marc’s sales totaled $2840. How many adult tickets and how many student tickets did Marc sell?

Step 1. Let x be the number of students tickets sold and let 4x be the dollar value of student tickets sold.

Step 2. Let 563-x be the number of adult tickets sold and let 6(563-x) be the dollar value of adult tickets sold.

Step 3. Given total sales is $2840, then . The following steps will solve this equation:

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YOUR ANSWER


  • This is an equation! Solutions: x=269.
  • Graphical form: Equation was fully solved.
  • Text form: 4x+6*(563-x)=2840 simplifies to 0=0
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DETAILED EXPLANATION

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Moved 563 to the right of expression
It becomes .
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Moved these terms to the left highlight_green%28+-2840+%29
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Expanded term 6 by using associative property on %28-x%2B563%29
It becomes .
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Multiplied numerator integers
It becomes .
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Added fractions or integers together
It becomes .
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Eliminated similar terms highlight_red%28+4%2Ax+%29,highlight_red%28+-6%2Ax+%29 replacing them with highlight_green%28+%284-6%29%2Ax+%29
It becomes .
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Added fractions or integers together
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Removed extra sign in front of -2
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Remove unneeded parentheses around factor highlight_red%28+2+%29
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Solved linear equation highlight_red%28+-2%2Ax%2B538=0+%29 equivalent to -2*x+538 =0
It becomes .
Result:
This is an equation! Solutions: x=269.

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With x=269 , the 563-x= 563-269=294.

Check dollar value...4*269+6*294=2840...which is a true statement

Step 4. ANSWER. The number of student tickets sold is 269 and the number of adult tickets sold is 294.

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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Respectfully,
Dr J

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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Dr J
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