Word Problem

Question

At the city museum, child admission is $ 5.30 and adult admission is $ 8.90 . On Saturday, 144 tickets were sold for a total sales of $ 1090.80 . How many adult tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

Hi, Bronson.

Let's call the number of child's tickets sold X

Then the number of adult tickets sold is 144 - X

5.30(X) + 8.90(144 - X) = 1090.80

5.3X - 8.9X + 1281.6 = 1090.8

190.8 = 3.6X

53 = X

 

So, there were 53 child tickets sold and 144 - 53 = 91 adult tickets sold

 

Answer, there were 91 adult tickets sold