Question

I need help with a word problem can anyone help??

Answer 1

whats the problem?

Answer 2

A Ballet Performance bought in $2153 from the sale of 166 tickets. A child's ticket was $11 and an adult ticket was $14. How manyof each type of ticket was sold?

Answer 3

let x=child ticket and y= adult ticket

x+y=166
11x+14y=2153

Answer 4

do you know what to do now?

Answer 5

Do you solve for each variable?

Answer 6

I really do not know what to do

Answer 7

Yes, solve for each variable, either using substitution or elimination.

Answer 8

See i don understand how to do tht...because when I did it.. it came out worried

Answer 9

weird

Answer 10

What was the first step that you took?

Answer 11

11x=2513 and divide both sides

Answer 12

That would mean that all of the tickets were children's tickets.

Answer 13

i mean 2153

Answer 14

You have to also consider that there were also adult tickets purchased.

Answer 15

wait so wat am i suppose to do??

Answer 16

Well we know that the amount of money made from children's tickets is 11*(# of children's tickets) and the amount of money made from adult's tickets is 14*(# of adult's tickets). Altogether, this has to equal 2153, so we write the equation \(11x+14y=2153\), where \(x\) is the # of children's tickets and \(y\) is the # of adult's tickets. Does that make sense?

Answer 17

I got that much..how do you solve it

Answer 18

Did you get the other equation also?

Answer 19

from dis point it shud be easy......put in the variables

Answer 20

the x+y=166

Answer 21

Right, now we are going to solve that equation for either \(x\) or \(y\), it is up to you.

Answer 22

put in the childrens amt in the x colon and adults evrywhere u find y

Answer 23

n kelvin im not good at word problems

Answer 24

ok

Answer 25

im so confused...... i give up thank you guys doe

Answer 26

im solvin it for you

Answer 27

you will get 177.9090 for x

Answer 28

how u get tht

Answer 29

you solve for x by first solving for y

Answer 30

it ll be like11x+14(14dats the amt of the ticket dat was sold to adults)=2153

Answer 31

den u multiply 14 x 14

Answer 32

okk so it 11x+196=2153

Answer 33

yes

Answer 34

den u group like terms

Answer 35

ok so x=177.90 n y=139.77

Answer 36

x is correct but y is wrng

Answer 37

ok sohw do you get y

Answer 38

afta solving for x n gettin the ans,rewrite the equation again

Answer 39

wud you do the same thing you did for x?

Answer 40

and instead of 11x,u ll do it 11{the ans for x}+14y=2153

Answer 41

yes of cos

Answer 42

i got 14.00

Answer 43

is correct well done

Answer 44

ok but it did not = 166 tickets

Answer 45

so this still does not tell me how many tickets was sold from each group

Answer 46

it was 57 n 109

Answer 47

just re reading the qns again will get back to in a shrt tym plz