Thread: 3/5 - Written problem (unable to solve)

How would I solve this? A step-by-step walkthrough would be very helpful as well

"Tickets for a school play are $3 for students and $5 for adults. If there are 500 seats avaliable and all were sold the total receipts are $2074. Write two equations that would help determine the number of each type of ticket sold."

Originally Posted by largebabies

How would I solve this? A step-by-step walkthrough would be very helpful as well

"Tickets for a school play are $3 for students and $5 for adults. If there are 500 seats avaliable and all were sold the total receipts are $2074. Write two equations that would help determine the number of each type of ticket sold."

Let be the number of adults, and be the number of students.

The total amount made from the tickets was $2074. Since the student tickets were $3 and the adult tickets were $5, then we see that

This is the first equation

I leave it for you to come up with the second one. It should be a piece of cake.

--Chris