The theaters has two types of tickets adult tickets for $14 and children tickets for six dollars last night the theater sold a total of 275 tickets for a total of $2458. How many adult tickets did the theater sell last night?
+781 Let x be the number of adult tickets sold. Then the number of children tickets sold is 275-x. Now we form an equation to represent the total money made from selling the tickets.
14x+6(275-x)=2458
14x+1650-6x=2458
8x+1650=2458
8x=808
x=101.
