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 arithmetically which would find the cost of one adult and one child ticket. Answers: Subtract 6 from 75. Divide 75 by 6. divide 75 by 3. Add 3 to 75
The first step to solve this problem arithmetically would be to assign variables to represent the cost of the adult and child tickets. Let's say the cost of an adult ticket is A, and the cost of a child ticket is C.
