Answer:
y = - x
Step-by-step explanation:
The equation of a line in slope- intercept form is
y = mx + c ( m is the slope and c the y- intercept )
Rearrange 8x - 4y = 12 into this form
Subtract 4x from both sides
- 4y = - 8x + 12 ( divide all terms by - 4 )
y = 2x - 3 ← in slope- intercept form
with slope m = 2
Given a line with slope m then the slope of a line perpendicular to it is
= -
= -
Since the line passes through the origin then c = 0
y = - x ← equation of perpendicular line
Let's call a child's ticket and an adult's ticket
. From this, we can say:
,
since 116 tickets are sold in total.
Now, we are going to need to find another equation (the problem asks us to solve a systems of equations). This time, we are not going to base the equation on ticket quantity, but rather ticket price. We know that an adult's ticket is $17,000, and a child's ticket is thus
.
Given these values, we can say:
,
since each adult ticket costs 17,000 and each child's ticket
costs 12,750, and these costs sum to 1,653,250.
Now, we have two equations:
Let's solve:
We have now found that 75 child's tickets were sold. Thus,
,
41 adult tickets were sold as well.
In sum, 41 adult tickets were sold along with 75 child tickets.