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 general tickets did you sell?

Answer 1

Student Tickets = x
General Tiickets = 350 - x

do you understand why the general tickets are 350 - x?

Answer 2

Hmm because 350 is the total amount of tickets sold and we need to find x?

Answer 3

Right! Now set up your equation. You know student tickets are $3 & general admission tickets are $5.

You also know the total collected is $1450

Answer 4

3x + 5 (350)-x = 1450

solve the equation for x

Answer 5

is the answer x= 100?

Answer 6

Did you get this when you distributed?
3x + 1750-5x = 1450

Answer 7

oops nope i see what i did wrong for that step

Answer 8

OK

Answer 9

okay i must have done something wrong after that step because my answer makes no sense

Answer 10

How many student tickets?
How many general tickets?
Be sure to label your answers...when I taught, I was pretty picky about that

Answer 11

Ohhhh okay now i see what i did wrong the 5x was negative

Answer 12

right

Answer 13

Okay thank you for your help!

Answer 14

You're welcome