Question

You are selling tickets for a high school basketball game. Student
tickets cost $3 and general admission tickets cost $5. You sell 350
tickets and collect $1,450. How many student tickets did you sell?

Answer 1

Fist, let the number of student tickets sold be, say, (s)
So the number of general admission tickets will be (350-s)
We can now get the money involved: 3(s)+5(350-s)=1450
Are you okay so far?

Answer 2

im really dyslexic so i might be slow

Answer 3

what i got was 200 but i dont think its right

Answer 4

Well, I haven't calculated the final answer, but I can guide you to it.
First, are you comfortable with my first statements up there?

Answer 5

yea i do

Answer 6

Good. 3(s)+5(350-s)=1450
So this becomes: 3s+17500-5s=1450
you okay with that?

Answer 7

got it
:) so far

Answer 8

Excellent. So put like terms together: 3s-5s=1450-17500
Which becomes: -2s=-16050
right?

Answer 9

right

Answer 10

awesome. now divide both sides by -2 to get the value of s. what do you get?

Answer 11

wait what?

Answer 12

just a sec @primeavlqueen22 ...

Answer 13

ok :)

Answer 14

3(s)+5(350-s)=1450
3s+1750-5s=1450
-2s=1450-1750
-2s=-300
made a miscalculation

Answer 15

so, like I said, we need to have s alone on the left side. to do that, we divide both the left and right sides by -2

Answer 16

oooh ok i get thank you SO much your a lifesaver

Answer 17

you're welcome :)