Question

Each child ticket for a ride costs $3, while each adult ticket costs $5. If the ride collected a total of $150, and 40 tickets were sold, how many of each type of ticket was sold?

Answer 1

`15` adult tickets and `25` child tickets were sold.

Explanation:

If all `40` tickets would have been for child ticket, collection would have been `$120`. As `$150` were collected, it means `$30` additional would have come from adult tickets.

As each adult ticket costs `$5` i.e. `$2` additional, `$30` would have come from `15` adult tickets.

Hence `15` adult tickets and `40-15=25` child tickets were sold.