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?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-27T23:25:36

Ron sold #9# students tickets

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