Pa carnival sold tickets for $1.50 for adults and $1.00 for students. there were 54 tickets sold for a total of $70.50. write a system of equations to represent the number of adult tickets, x, and the number of student tickets, y. find the solution and explain what it means?

Step-by-step explanation:

For such problems, it is convenient to write one equation for the total number of tickets sold

  x + y = 54

and another equation for the total revenue collected from the sales

  1.50x + 1.00y = 70.50

These equations are conveniently solved by eliminating the variable representing the lowest-price tickets (y). Here, we can simply subtract the first equation from the second:

  (1.50x +1.00y) -(x + y) = (70.50) -(54)

  0.50x = 16.50 . . . . simplify

  x = 33 . . . . . . . . . . . multiply by 2

  y = 54 -x = 21 . . . . . find the value of y

Given the definitions of the variables, (x, y) = (33, 21) means 33 adult ticket and 21 student tickets were sold.

i think the answer is .36

step-by-step explanation:

what i did was only 2.88 divided by 8