You are selling tickets for a musical at your school. Student tickets cost $5 and adult tickets cost $8.

If you sell 500 tickets and collect $3475, how many student tickets and how many adult tickets did you sell?

Question

You are selling tickets for a musical at your school.  Student tickets cost $5 and adult tickets cost $8. 

If you sell 500 tickets and collect $3475, how many student tickets and how many adult tickets did you sell?

anonymous · Answer

@blurbendy

anonymous · Answer

Let no. of $5 tickets = x
Let no. of $8 tickets = y

x + y = 500    ----------- Eqn. (I)

Also
5x + 8y = 3475 --------- Eqn (II)

Now use method of substitution or elimination to solve this

anonymous · Answer

@jazzyfa30

anonymous · Answer

325 adult tickets were sold using linear equation in 1 variable.