A total of 429 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adult tickets or student tickets. the number of student t

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A total of 429 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adult tickets or student tickets. the number of student t

ickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. how many adult tickets were sold? adulttickets

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Studentka2010 [4] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-14T11:06:30+03:00

Let's say adult tickets = x and student tickets = y

(1) x + y = 429

The number of student tickets sold is twice the number of adults tickets sold, therefor y = 2x
Now if we substitute this into equation (1), we get:
x + 2x = 429
3x = 429
x = 143
Therefor the number of adult tickets sold is 143