5.3.PS-15 5 Question Help
Challenge The members of the city cultural center have decided to put on a play once a night for a
week. Their auditorium holds 600 people. By selling tickets, the members would like to raise $3,900
every night to cover all expenses. Let d represent the number of adult tickets sold at $8.50. Let s
represent the number of student tickets sold at $5.50 each. If all 600 seats are filled for a
performance, how many of each type of ticket must have been sold for the members to raise exactly
$3,900? At one performance there were two times as many student tickets sold as adult tickets. If
there were 300 tickets sold at that performance, how much below the goal of $3,900 did ticket sales
fall?
The members sold 200 adult tickets and 400 student tickets.
If there were 300 tickets sold, the ticket sales fall $
below the goal of $3,900.