Answer:
a) At $3,300 for 600 seats, the average price per seat is 3300/600 = $5.50. The mix of tickets that results in that average can be found using an X diagram as shown below. The numbers on the right are the differences along the diagonals. When they are multiplied by 2, they add to 600. This shows that the required sales for revenue of $3,300 are
200 adult tickets
400 student tickets
b) When 3 student tickets are sold for each adult ticket, the average seat price is
(3*$4.50 +7.50)/4 = $5.25
Then the shortfall in revenue is ...
$3,300 -480*$5.25 = $780
The correct answer is the commutative property of multiplication. This states that 2 or more numbers can be multiplied in either order.
