Tickets for a drumline competition cost $5 at the gate and $3 in advance. One hundred more tickets were sold in advance than at the gate. The total revenue from ticket sales was $1990. How many tickets were sold in advance?

The number of tickets sold at the gate is

The number of tickets sold in advance is  

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

 The cost of a tickets at the gate is  

  The cost of a ticket in advance is  

Let the number of ticket sold in the gate be G

Let the number of ticket sold in advance  be   A

From the question we are told that

  One hundred more tickets were sold in advance than at the gate and this can be mathematically represented as

From the question we are told that

  The total revenue from ticket sales was $1990  and this can be mathematically represented as

substituting for  A in the equation above

=>  

Substituting this for G in the above equation

=>    

=>    

180

step-by-step explanation:

12-2=10

20-2=18

18x10=180