Question

A total of 480 were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or students tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult were sold

Answer 1

Ok so basically, the number of student tickets is 3x, where x=the number of adult tickets sold. And we know that s(for student tickets)+x=480 total tickets sold. So if we replace s with 3x we have 3x+x=480, or 4x=480. We divide by 4 and get x=120, which is the amount of adult tickets sold.