grade 9 · A1-005

Model two constraints

Create and solve two simultaneous constraints, then interpret the viable solution.

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A school sold 14 tickets. Adult tickets cost $8 and student tickets cost $5. Revenue was $94. How many student tickets were sold?

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Work through one checkpoint at a time. Your answer area opens after the reasoning.

Checkpoint 1

Let a and s represent the two ticket counts.
Checkpoint 2

Use the total-count equation to express one variable in terms of the other.
Checkpoint 3

Substitute into the revenue equation and interpret the nonnegative whole-number solution.

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