SOLUTION: A theater has tickets at $6 for adults, $3.50 for students, and $2.50 for children. A total of 278 tickets were sold with a total revenue of $1300. If the number of adult tickets
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Question 894770: A theater has tickets at $6 for adults, $3.50 for students, and $2.50 for children. A total of 278 tickets were sold with a total revenue of $1300. If the number of adult tickets sold was 10 less than twice the number of students tickets, how many of each ticket were sold for the showing?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
g = how many adult tickets
s = how many student tickets
c = children tickets
and ;
, accounts for tickets but g is eliminated.
starting with account of revenue.
, accounts the revenue, also g is eliminated.
Start equation solution as elimination, using 5 times the ticket count equation:
You take care of the rest of the solution for g and c.
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