At the city museum, child admission is $5.30 and adult admission is $8.90. On Tuesday, three times as many adult tickets as child admission tickets were sold, for a total sales of $928.00.

Question

How many child tickets were sold that day?

Answer 1

The first we need to do is assign variables to what our "unknowns" are. Let's say the number of adult tickets will be "A" and the number of child's tickets will be "C". We will use two equations to solve this problem

First, we know that each adult ticket is $8.90 and each child ticket is $5.30. When we add up the sales total for both types of tickets, the total sale is $928. We can represent this with the following equation:

$8.90A + $5.30C = $928

Next, we know that if we multiply the number of child's tickets by 3, we will get the number of adult tickets:

3 * C = A

Now, we can substitute 3 * C in for "A" in our first equation and solve:

8.9 (3C) + 5.3C = 928

26.7C + 5.3C = 928

32C = 928

C = 29

There were 29 child's tickets sold that day. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you have!