A total of
432
tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold?
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Did you click on 'Explain"? If the ratio was 2 to 1, that's a total of 3, so divide the number of tickets by 3.
12
To solve this problem, we can set up a system of equations. Let's call the number of adult tickets sold "A" and the number of student tickets sold "S".
From the problem, we know that the total number of tickets sold is 432:
A + S = 432
We also know that the number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold:
S = 2A
To find the number of adult tickets sold, we need to solve this system of equations.
Substituting the value of S from the second equation into the first equation:
A + 2A = 432
3A = 432
A = 432/3
A = 144
So, 144 adult tickets were sold.