Question

A total of 676 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 74 fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Answer 1

To find the answer,we can solve this by settin up an equation.

Let x be the number of adult tickets sold.

The number of students ticket sold would be:
x-74

We can then sum them up to set an equation:

x+x-74 = 676
2x = 676 + 74
x = 375

Therefore the adult tickets sold were 375.

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