Question

A total of 815 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 65 more students tickets sold than adults tickets. How many adults tickets were sold

Answer 1

Answer:

375 Adult Tickets.

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we can simply set up an equation using variable x in place of the unknown student/adult tickets.

x = # of adult tickets sold

x + 65 = # of student tickets sold.

1) x + x + 65 = 815 (set both ticket amounts equal to the total)

2) 2x + 65 = 815 (added common variables together)

3) 2x = 750 (negated the +65, subtracted it from both sides)

4) x = 375 (divided both sides by 2)

5) 815 - 375 = 440 (subtracted the x from the total number of adult tickets, to recieve the amount of childrens' tickets.

Therefore,

Since there were fewer adult tickets sold (-65), 375 is the number of adult tickets, and 440 is the number of student tickets.