Question 2
In a football match, the tickets for children and adults were sold at D 3.00 and D 5.00 respectively. If 400 people attended the football match and D 1, 700.00 was collected in ticket sales, :
- How many tickets were sold to adults?
- Mr. Sonko sold 250 tickets. If 175 of the tickets were for adults, how much sales did he make altogether?
Observation
The Chief Examiner reported that majority of the candidates’ attempted this question satisfactorily. But some candidates still omitted the currency unit and also did not state the answer in part (b) of this question in two decimal places.
In part (a), they did as expected by first assigning x as number children and y as number of adults. The total number of people that attended the football match is given as
x + y = 400…(1).
The value of tickets sold to children and adult is given as
3x + 5y = 1700….(2).
Solving equation (1) and (2)
gives y = 250 and x = 150.
Therefore, tickets sold to adults = 250 tickets.
In part (b), they did as expected by obtaining number of children he sold ticket for as Children = 250 – 175 = 75.
Then Sales = 3 (75) + 5 (175) = 225 + 875 = D 1,100.00.