Question

Tickets to a school play cost $3 for students and $8 for adults. on opening night, $1,000 was collected and 150 tickets sold. use substitution to solve a system of equations to find how many of each kind of ticket were sold? enter your answers in the boxes.

Answer 1

S+a=150
3s+8a=1000
a=-s+150
3s-8s+1200=1000
-5s=-200
s=40
a=110
40 student and 110 adult tickets were sold