Which of the following systems would allow us to solve for the number of student and adult tickets?

Question

Which of the following systems would allow us to solve for the number of student and adult tickets?

Adult tickets for the school musical sold for $3.00 and the student tickets sold for $2.00. One hundred fifty tickets were sold all together for $395.00.

A)

3a+2s=150

a+s=395

B)

a−s=150

3a+2s=395

C)

3a+2s=395

a+s=150

D)

2a+3s=395

a+s=150

Answer 1

One equation will be created for the total number of tickets and the second equation will be created for the total amount of money.

Let a be the number of adult tickets and

s be the number of student tickets

First equation will be

a+s=150

Second equation will be

3a+2s=395

The correct option is C