Adult tickets to the fall play cost $6 and student tickets cost $3. The drama class sold 25 more student tickets than adult tickets to the fall play. If the class collected $600 from ticket sales, how many student tickets were sold?
The drama class sold blank student tickets.
The solution is
Let x be the number of adult tickets sold.
So, the number of student tickets sold would be x + 25.
The total revenue from ticket sales can be calculated as:
6x (revenue from adult tickets) + 3(x + 25) (revenue from student tickets) = $600
6x + 3x + 75 = 600
9x = 525
x = 58.33 (rounded to the nearest whole number)
So, the drama class sold 58 adult tickets and 58 + 25 = 83 student tickets.
Therefore, the drama class sold 83 student tickets.