Question

3 adult and 3 child movie tickets were purchased for 75$ the cost of each child ticket is 3$ less than the cost of an adult ticket identify the first step if solving this problem arithmetically which would find the cost of one adult and one child ticket

Answer 1

Let's start by assigning variables to the unknown quantities in the problem.
Let's say the cost of one adult ticket is A dollars.
Since the cost of each child ticket is 3 dollars less than the cost of an adult ticket, the cost of one child ticket would be A - 3 dollars.
Now, we can set up an equation to represent the given information:
3A + 3(A - 3) = 75
This equation simplifies to:
3A + 3A - 9 = 75
The first step in solving this equation arithmetically would be to combine like terms:
6A - 9 = 75