In the following exercises, solve each ticket or stamp word problem.
A church luncheon made .
Adult ticket cost each and children's ticket cost each.
The number of children is more than twice the number of adults.
How many of each ticket were sold?
Step-1: Find :
Let be the number of adult tickets.
The number of children is more than twice the number of adults.
Multiply by and add to obtain the number of child tickets.
The number of child tickets are .
Adult ticket cost each and children's ticket cost each.
Multiply by and by and equate it to .
Step-2: Find ticket.
Substitute in the expression , to find children's ticket number.
Therefore, the number of adult's ticket is and the number of children's ticket is