Question

Jillian’s school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50 a plus 3.75 b equals 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold?

_____adult tickets

Answer 1

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To find the number of adult tickets sold, we can first substitute the number of student tickets (b = 82) into the equation:

10.50a + 3.75(82) = 2071.50
10.50a + 307.50 = 2071.50
10.50a = 1764
a = 168

Therefore, 168 adult tickets were sold.