A total of 815 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 65 more stud

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ents tickets sold than adults tickets. How many adults tickets were sold

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kvv77 [185] · Answer 1 · 2022-11-27T09:14:29+03:00

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.