A total of 432 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold?

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Hazel Anglin · Accepted Answer

#A=108# tickets

Let's let #A=# number of adult tickets sold and #s=#number of student tickets sold. Currently, 432 tickets have been sold total, including the number of adult and student tickets sold. Therefore, #A+s=432# We also know that number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tickets sold. Therefore, #s=3A# We can now substitute #s# with #3A# =>#A+3A=432# =>#4A=432# Divide both sides by 4 =>#A=108#

Savannah Anderson · Answer

108 adult tickets sold.

To do this equation, we can set x equal to the number of adult tickets sold, and then set up the following equation: #x+3x=432# Since there are three times as many student tickets as adult tickets and the total is 432, you can just use all this information together to make an equation. From there, you can combine like terms to create this equation: #4x=432# After this, just divide both sides by 4 to reach the answer of: #x=108#

Genesis Allen · Answer

undefined Let x be the number of adult tickets sold.

Then the number of student tickets sold would be 3x.

Since the total number of tickets sold is 432:

x + 3x = 432

Combining like terms:

4x = 432

Dividing both sides by 4:

x = 108

So, 108 adult tickets were sold.