Question

You sell tickets for admission to your school play and collect a total of $104. Admission prices are $6 for adults and $4 for children. You sold 21 tickets. How many adult tickets and how many children tickets did you sell?

Answer 1

16 adult and 2 children

16 times 6 = 96

2 times 4 = 8

96 + 8 = 104

Answer 2

6x + 4x = 104
x + y = 21

x = 10.4 Adult tickets
y = 10.6 Children tickets