Ron and Kathy are ticket-sellers at their class play. Ron is handling student tickets that sell for $1 each and Kathy selling adult tickets for $5.50 each. If their total income for 16 tickets was $47.50, how many did Ron sell?

1 Answer

Ron sold 9 students tickets

Explanation:

Let x be the number of student tickets Ron sold then

16-x will be the number of adult tickets sold by Kathy

Now, the total income of both Ron & Kathy

1\cdot x+5.5(16-x)=47.5

x+88-5.5x=47.5

4.5x=88-47.5

x=40.5/4.5

x=9

Thus, Ron sold 9 students tickets