SOLUTION: 1. Felix and his friend Ali are selling tickets for the rides at their school’s annual fair.
a Between them they sell 80 tickets. Felix sold 12 more tickets than Ali.
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Question 1183357: 1. Felix and his friend Ali are selling tickets for the rides at their school’s annual fair.
a Between them they sell 80 tickets. Felix sold 12 more tickets than Ali.
Write an equation and solve it to find how many tickets they each sold.
b The tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for children. The 80 tickets cost a total of $168. The school wants to find out the number of adult tickets and the number of children’s tickets sold.
i Define the two unknown variables in this situation. Use the facts in the question to write a pair of simultaneous equations relating the two variables.
ii Solve this pair of simultaneous equations using elimination and then write your answer in words.
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1. Felix and his friend Ali are selling tickets for the rides at their school’s annual fair.
a Between them they sell 80 tickets. Felix sold 12 more tickets than Ali.
Write an equation and solve it to find how many tickets they each sold.
b The tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for children. The 80 tickets cost a total of $168.
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(a)
Felix sold y+12 tickets and Ali sold y tickets.
Felix sold 46 tickets and Ali sold 34 tickets.
(b)
If A adult tickets then 80-A children tickets.
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