Homework Question

Question

At the city museum, child admission is
$5.80
and adult admission is
$9.20
. On Friday, three times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of
$1068.80
. How many child tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

child tickets were x, the adult tickets were 3x

 

5.8x + 9.2 * 3x = 1068.80

 

    5.8x + 27.6x = 1068.80

 

               33.4x = 1068.80

 

                      x = 32

 

so 3x = 3* 32 = 96

 

child tickets were 32, the adult tickets were 96