Answer:
108 student tickets, and 176 adult tickets were sold
Step-by-step explanation:
Adult ticket $8 Call the number of adult tickets sold "a"
Student ticket $5 Call the number of student tickets sold "s"
Since we are talking about TWO consecutive days of sold out seats, the total number of seats sold were 2* 142 = 284
Then we create two different equations with the information given:
a + s = 284
8 * a + 5 * s = 1948
we can solve for s in the first equation as follows: s = 284 - a
and use it in the second equation
8 a + 5 (284 - a) = 1948
8 a + 1420 - 5 a = 1948
combining
3 a = 528
a = 528/3
a = 176
we find the number of student tickets using this answer in the substitution equation we used:
s - 284 - 176 = 108
Therefore 108 student tickets, and 176 adult tickets were sold.
If it takes one person 4 hours to paint a room and another person 12 hours to
paint the same room, working together they could paint the room even quicker, it
turns out they would paint the room in 3 hours together. This can be reasoned by
the following logic, if the first person paints the room in 4 hours, she paints 14 of
the room each hour. If the second person takes 12 hours to paint the room, he
paints 1 of the room each hour. So together, each hour they paint 1 + 1 of the 12 4 12
room. Using a common denominator of 12 gives: 3 + 1 = 4 = 1. This means 12 12 12 3
each hour, working together they complete 13 of the room. If 13 is completed each hour, it follows that it will take 3 hours to complete the entire room.
This pattern is used to solve teamwork problems. If the first person does a job in A, a second person does a job in B, and together they can do a job in T (total). We can use the team work equation.
Teamwork Equation: A1 + B1 = T1
Often these problems will involve fractions. Rather than thinking of the first frac-
tion as A1 , it may be better to think of it as the reciprocal of A’s time.
World View Note: When the Egyptians, who were the first to work with frac- tions, wrote fractions, they were all unit fractions (numerator of one). They only used these type of fractions for about 2000 years! Some believe that this cumber- some style of using fractions was used for so long out of tradition, others believe the Egyptians had a way of thinking about and working with fractions that has been completely lost in history.
