Question

Jillian’s school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50 a plus 3.75 b equals 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold? adult tickets​

Answer 1

Answer:

your answer is 168 adult tickets

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

168 adult tickets

Step-by-step explanation:

3.75(82) (82 students)

307.5

2071.5 - 307.5 ( you subtract since you only need to know the number of adults)

1764

1764/10.5 (you divide since each adult is 10.5$)

168