Question

tickets to a local movie were sold at 4.00$ for adults and 2.50$ for students. If 59 tickets were sold for a total of 222.50$, how many students were sold?

Answer 1

"students were sold"<--funny

anyway....let x be the number of students and y be the number of adults

Answer 2

it says the total tickets was 59

so you can write that as

x + y = 59

agree?

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

then, it says the total cost was 222.50

so...

2.50x + 4y = 222.50

because eachs tudent ticket is 2.5 worth and each adult ticket is 4 worth

got it?

Answer 5

yup

Answer 6

so now use those two equations

x + y = 59
2.5x + 4y = 222.5

solve for x

Answer 7

how?

Answer 8

@lgbasallote