P6 / Tao Nan / 2019 / SA2 / Paper 2 – Q11 [4 marks]

Question:

At a concert, there were 402 people in the audience.
A child’s ticket costs half as much as the cost of an adult ticket.
An adult ticket costs $58.
A total of $17 690 was collected from all the tickets sold.
a) Find the cost of a child’s ticket.
b) How many children were in the audience?

Solution: