Question

Adult tickets to the fall play cost 8
and student tickets cost 4
. The drama class sold 20
more adult tickets than student tickets to the fall play. If the class collected 880
from ticket sales, how many adult tickets were sold?

The drama class sold blank adult tickets.

Answer 1

Let adult tickets = A and student tickets = S. Then A = S + 20 and 8A + 4S = 880.

Substitute: 8(S + 20) + 4S = 880 → 12S + 160 = 880 → 12S = 720 → S = 60.

So A = S + 20 = 60 + 20 = 80.

The drama class sold 80 adult tickets.