Question

Which system of equations can be used to solve the following problem?



Each child ticket for a ride costs $3, while each adult ticket costs $5. If the ride collected a total of $115, and 33 tickets were sold, how many of each type of ticket were sold? Let c be the number of child tickets and a be the number of adult tickets.

a. 3c + 5y = 115
a + c =133
b. 3a + 5c = 33
a + c =115
c. 3c + 5a = 33
a + c = 115

d. 5c + 3a = 115
c + a = 33

Answer 1

Someone please help.:)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

3c + 5a = 115
c + a = 33

hmm...I am not getting any of your answer choices

Answer 4

I just double checked to make sure I typed them right... I did :)

Answer 5

could you take a screenshot of original question and attach if possible ?

Answer 6

Sorry,I don't know how.

Answer 7

Can you still help?