Math story problems

Question

The school is selling tickets. The first day they sold 8 senior tickets and 2 child tickets for a total of 22$. On the second day they sold 4 senior tickets and 5 child tickets for 5$. What is the price of each ticket?

Answer 1

The equations are 8x + 2y = 22 and 4x + 5y = 5. Multiplying the second equation by 2 and subtracting the first from it gives 8y = -12$, so there must be a typo in the question. If the second day sale was $15, then 8y=8$ ($1 per child) and 8x=20, or $2.50 per senior.