The drama club at Math Academy High School sold tickets to their end of the year play. On Monday they sold 80 tickets for a total of $426. If each adult ticket cost $6 and student tickets cost $4.50, how many adult tickets did they sell?
A) 44
B) cannot be determined
C) 36
D) 71

OPTION A

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "a" the number of adults tickets they sold and "s" the number student of tickets they sold.

With the information given in the exercise you can set up the following System of equations:

Use the Elimination method to solve the system of equations:

1. Multiply the first equation by -6.

2. Add the equations.

3. Solve for "s" in order to find its value.

Then:

4. Finally, substitute the value of "s" into the first equation and solve for "a":

-3

step-by-step explanation:

a drawing really does here:

so i draw the horizontal line y=2 and the vertical line x=-2 at this intersection i put b (this is where my right angle is going to be).   so point b is at (-2,2).   point a is 5 units long and is also on y=2 so this point has to be (3,2) or (-7,2) -doesn't matter i will go with (3,2).

now we know c is at (-2,y) we don't know the y yet bet we know that c is on x=-2.

we have the area of the triangle is .5bh=12.5

we know the base length is 5 (ab)

we have the height is (2-y) if you look at your

plug in

.5(5)(2-y)=12.5

solve for y to get the y-coordinate for c

2.5(2-y)=12.5

divide both sides by 2.5 giving:

2-y=5

now subtract 2 on both sides

-y=3

y=-3

a) y = -3x +2

b) y = 1/2x -6

these 2 can be combined into one equation.

-3x +2 = .5x -6

8 = 3.5x

x = 8 / 3.5 = 2.2857142857

y = -3 * (8 / 3.5) +2

y = (-24 / 3.5) + 2

y = -4.8571428571

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