Problema Solution

A total of

433

tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were

67

fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

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let 'a' represent the number of adult tickets

let 'a-67' represent the number of student tickets


433 = a + a-67

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solving for the number of adult tickets

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a = 250


250 adult tickets were sold