Lesson 89 Value Problems

Example 89.1 Airline fares for flights from Tifton to Adel are $30 for first class and $25 for tourist class. If a flight had 52 passengers who paid a total of $1360, how many first-class passengers were on the trip?

Example 89.2 Watasksha’s dress shop sold less expensive dresses for $20 each and more expensive ones for $45 each. The shop took in $1375 and sold 20 more of the less expensive dresses than the more expensive dresses. How many of each kind did they sell?

Example 89.3 Tickets for good seats cost $8, and tickets for the other seats cost $3. If 18 tickets were sold for a total of $119, how many tickets for good seats were sold?

Example 89.4 At a basketball game, adult tickets sold for 5 dollars and children’s tickets sold for 2 dollars. If 175 were sold for a total of 686 dollars, how many of each type were sold?