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how many more adults than students bought tickets to the concert?

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Sagot :

Let's use the letter A to represent the number of adult tickets, and S to represent the number of student tickets.

We know that the total number of sold tickets was 175 (assuming everyone who bought a ticket went to the concert).

Thus, we can write:

[tex]A+S=175[/tex]

We also know that the number of sold adult tickets was 10 more than twice the number of student tickets. Thus, we have:

[tex]A=10+2S[/tex]

Now, notice that the first equation can be written as:

[tex]S=175-A[/tex]

Then, using the above result into the second equation, we obtain:

[tex]\begin{gathered} A=10+2(175-A) \\ \\ A=10+350-2A \\ \\ A+2A=360-2A+2A \\ \\ 3A=360 \\ \\ \frac{3A}{3}=\frac{360}{3} \\ \\ A=120 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Now, we can use the previous result to find S:

[tex]S=175-120=55[/tex]

Since we need to find how many more adults than students bought tickets, we need to subtract 55 from 120:

[tex]120-55=65[/tex]

Therefore, the answer is 65.