Jake, Sara, and Cole are selling tickets for the school drama show. Sara sells half as many tickets as Jake. Cole sells 6 more t

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Jake, Sara, and Cole are selling tickets for the school drama show. Sara sells half as many tickets as Jake. Cole sells 6 more t

han twice as many as Jake. They sold a total of 538 tickets together. Write an equation to represent the situation.

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borishaifa [10] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-10T14:37:26+03:00

Let x be Jake's number of sold tickets. Sara's number is half as Jake's, so x/2 while, Cole's number is twice as Jake's, 2x. The equation that represents the problem is just the summation of their sold tickets. Therefore, 538= x+ x/2 + 2x, further simplifying the equation, it becomes, 538= 7/2 x. Solving for Jake's number of tickets, Sara and Cole's number of tickets can be determined.