The Maplewood Symphony Orchestra sold 146 tickets and collected a total of $1036 in ticket sales. Admission was $5 for
children, x, and $8 for adults, y. How many children
tickets were sold?

44 children tickets

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a system of equations. I solved for y, the amount of adult tickets sold which equals 102. To get the amount of children's tickets, subtract 102 from 146 to get 44.

x= -3 and

step-by-step explanation:

to find the roots of a cubic, use division or factoring to find the factors then set equal to 0. as this is a difference of cubes, it factors into

where a is the cube root of .

here   this is 27 and the cube root of 27 is 3. so we write using the form:

.

set each factor to 0 and solve for x.

x-3=0

x=3

the quadratic expression does not factor and must be solved using the quadratic formula.

where a = 1, b=3, and c=9

this cubic has two complex roots.