A total of 438 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold

Answer: 146 Tickets

Step-by-step explanation:

So, we need to write an equation first to be able to solve this problem.

The variables we will be using are x, which represents how many adult tickets were sold.

Because we know that the student tickets sold were two times the adult, we can label the student tickets as 2x.

Our equation will be x + 2x = 438

Because x and 2x can be added together, it will make 3x.

3x = 438

x = 146