Question

Three adult and three 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 automatically, which would find the cost of one adult and one child ticket

Answer 1

The first step in solving this problem automatically would be to set up a system of equations to represent the given information. Let's assume that the cost of one adult ticket is "x" dollars. Then, the cost of one child ticket would be "x - 3" dollars (as it is $3 less than the adult ticket).

So, the two equations would be:
3x + 3(x - 3) = 75 (equation representing the total cost of the tickets)
x - (x - 3) = 3 (equation representing the price difference between adult and child tickets)