Question

The local movie theater, Scene It Cinema, had a special showing of the latest dinosaur movie. There were 6 youth tickets sold for every 5 adult tickets sold.

If there were 70 adult tickets sold, how many movie tickets were sold altogether?

Answer 1

Answer:

Let the youth and adult tickets be y and x respectively.

6y + 5x ---> (1)

From statement (1):

(1) × 14

84y + 70x

For every 70 adult tickets sold, 84 youth tickets were sold.

Total number of tickets sold= 70 + 84

                                              = 154