What was the price of a general admission ticket?

Question

The student tickets cost $6.00 less than the general admission tickets. The total amount of money collected for student tickets was $1800 and for general admission tickets, $3000. 

Answer 1

The student tickets cost less than the general admission tickets.

The total amount of money collected for student tickets was

The general admission tickets

Let be the number of tickets sold.

Let be the cost of the general admission tickets.

Since, number of tickets at cost is

Thus, number of tickets at cost is

Rewrite the equation.

Simplify,

The number of each ticket sold is

Substitute in

General admission is