Question

At the city museum, child admission is $5.30 and adult admission is $8.80. On Wednesday, 154 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1050.70. How many adult tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

you have any choices??

Answer 2

what do you mean by that?

Answer 3

i mean 75

Answer 4

the answer is 67 tickets but i don't know how to solve that?

Answer 5

i did like this so p+q=163
5.3p+9.1q=1198.3
53p+91q=11983
53p+53q=8639
38q=3344
q=88
p=75

Answer 6

@SnuggieLad may you help this user...

Answer 7

let the no adult tickets sld be x then

child tickets sold=154-x

8.80x+5.30(154-x)=1050.70

solve this eqn for x

Answer 8

thank you

Answer 9

yw