Illian's school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50a + 3.75b = 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold?

Question

Jaydon Herring

Mathematics

3 December, 16:14

Illian's school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50a + 3.75b = 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold?

+4

Answers (1)

Know the Answer?

Jaylon Reeves · Answer 1

There was 168 adults because once you times 3.75 by 82 you get 307.50 then subtract 307.50-2071.50=1764 then divide that by 10.50 by 1764 and you get 168