Question

A movie theater charges 8 dollars for adults and 4 dollars for seniors. On a particular day when 353 people paid an admission, the total receipts were 1688 dollars

Answer 1

A movie theater charges 8 dollars for adults and 4 dollars for seniors. On a particular day when 353 people paid an admission, the total receipts were 1688 dollars. How many who paid were adults? . How many who paid were seniors?

Answer:

There were 69 adults and 284 seniors

Solution:

Let "a" be the number of adults

Let "s" be the number of seniors

Cost of 1 adult = $ 8

Cost of 1 senior = $ 4

On a particular day when 353 people paid an admission

Therefore,

number of adults + number of seniors = 353

a + s = 353

a = 353 - s ---------- eqn 1

The total receipts were 1688 dollars

Therefore, we frame a equation as:

number of adults x Cost of 1 adult + number of seniors x Cost of 1 senior = 1688

$a \times 8 + s \times 4 = 1688$

8a + 4s = 1688 ---------- eqn 2

Let us solve eqn 1 and eqn 2

Substitute eqn 1 in eqn 2

8(353 - s) + 4s = 1688

2824 -8s + 4s = 1688

4s = 2824 - 1688

4s = 1136

s = 284

Substitute s = 284 in eqn 1

a = 353 - 284

a = 69

Thus there were 69 adults and 284 seniors in movie theater