Problema Solution
Adult tickets to the fall play cost $8 and student tickets cost $4. The drama class sold 20 more adult tickets than student tickets to the fall play. If the class collected $880 from ticket sales, how many adult tickets were sold?
The drama class sold _____ adult tickets.
Answer provided by our tutors
let 's' represent the number of student tickets, then 's+20' represents the number of adult tickets
the equation for total tickets can be expressed as follows:
4.00 * s + 8.00 * (s+20) = 880.00
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solution steps are available here:
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solving for 's=60', so there were 60 student tickets
60+20 = 80
there were 80 adult tickets