document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1129988>Question 1129988</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> The Land O’ Lakes High School auditorium has exactly 26 rows of seats. The rows are labeled, in order, from the front of the auditorium to the back from A through Z. There are 8 seats in the row A. Each row after the first row has two more seats than the previous row. There are 10 seats in row B, 12 seats in row C and so on. How many seats are there in row Z?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For this answer, I have 58 seats.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What is the total number of seats in the Land O’ Lakes High School auditorium?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For this answer, I have 1508 seats\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Land O’ Lakes High School collected $2860 from ticket sales for the winter concert. A ticket was sold for every seat in the auditorium, resulting in a sold out concert. If the price of an adult ticket was three times the price of a student ticket, and twice as many student tickets were sold as adult tickets, what was the price of a student ticket?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I cannot figure out this last one.  </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #746625 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=math_helper><B>math_helper(2461)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=math_helper><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=math_helper><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=746625\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Row Z having 58 seats is correct.  Good work. <br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Not sure what you did to find 1508 seats, since you did not show your work.   Using (average number of seats per row) x (number of rows):    correct total number of seats is  ((8 + 58)/2)*26 = 858    <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For the last part:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "let A = number of adult tickets sold<BR>\n" );
document.write( "let S = number of student tickets sold<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(eq 1)  A + S = 858    (a ticket for every seat was sold)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(eq 2)  S = 2A<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The total ticket sales information will be used later…<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve to get<BR>\n" );
document.write( "A = 286 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "S = 572<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now, incorporating the total ticket sales:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Let x = price of student ticket, then 3x = price of an adult ticket <BR>\n" );
document.write( "2860 = A*(3x) + S*(x) <br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Plug in for A and S, then solve for x to get the price of a student ticket  ($2)\r<BR>\n" );
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