Question

The Drama Club is selling tickets to a high school play. Student tickets cost $5 and general admission tickets cost $8. They sell 92 tickets and collect $610. How many of each type of ticket did you sell?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Let No. Of Student tickets sold be X and No. Of general tickets sold be Y respectively.

Total tickets sold :

(a) X + Y = 92

Total earnings from tickets sale:

(b) 5X + 8Y = 610

Solving equations (a) and (b), we get :

X = 42 tickets

Y = 50 tickets