SOLUTION: A school is selling tickets to a talent show. On the first day of sales they sold 1 adult ticket and 6 student tickets for a total of $60. On the last day of sales, they sold 6 adu

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Question 1199504: A school is selling tickets to a talent show. On the first day of sales they sold 1 adult ticket and 6 student tickets for a total of $60. On the last day of sales, they sold 6 adult tickets and 15 student tickets for a total of $192. What was the price of the adult ticket?

Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic:
Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source):
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Informally, using logical reasoning and mental arithmetic....

Since 1 adult ticket and 6 student tickets cost $60, 6 adult tickets and 36 student tickets would cost $360.
Comparing that to the $192 cost of 6 adult tickets and 15 student tickets, we see that the 36-15=21 additional student tickets cost an additional $360-$192 = $168; so the cost of each student ticket is $168/21 = $8.
So on the first day the 6 student tickets cost 6($8) = $48, which means the 1 adult ticket cost $60-$48 = $12.

ANSWER: The price of an adult ticket was $12.

The exact same thing, using formal algebra....
x+6y = 60 given 6x+36y = 360 multiply by 6 6x+15y = 192 given 21y = 168 the difference between the two equations y = 8 solve for y x+6(8) = 60 solve for x x+48 = 60 x = 12

Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source):
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Price of one adult ticket, y.
Price of student ticket, x.

Questions asks for just the value of y. Try to eliminate x.

, this form of the system does not help.

Back to the original system
5*E1 and 2*E2.

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