A theater sells adult tickets for $12 each and student tickets for $8 each. If a total of 150 tickets were sold for $1,520, how many adult tickets were sold?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 80
- Step 1: Let be adult tickets and student tickets: .
- Step 2: Revenue equation: .
- Step 3: Substitute : .
- Step 4: Simplify: adult tickets.
Answer
80.
Why not the others: '70' is the number of student tickets (); '75' assumes equal ticket split; '85' is an arithmetic error.
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