Question

Poppy, felix and Alexi sell 700 raffle tickets between them. Poppy sells twice as many tickets as Felix, and Alexi sells 25 more than poppy. How many tickets did each of them sell?

Answer 1

Let give Poppy = P, Felix = F, Alexi = A
so P+ F + A = 700 ----(1)
P = 2F ----(2)
A = 25 + P ---(3)
we will think in term of P

from (2) F = P/2

from (1) P + F + A = 700
P + P/2 + 25 + P = 700 ---(4)
(4) multiplied by 2
2P + P + 50 + 2P = 1400
5P + 50 = 1400
5P = 1350
so P = 270

so Poppy sold 270 tickets
Felix sold 135 tickets
and Alexi sold 295 tickets //