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A drama club plans to sell 100 tickets to a school musical. An adult ticket costs $6, and a student ticket costs$4. Students who attend the school get a $1 discount. The club expects two thirds of the student tickets to be discounted. Write an equation that gives the total revenue r (in dollars) as a function of the number a of adult tickets sold.
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VerifiedLet be the number of adult ticket sold and the total revenue.
An adult ticket costs . Therefore, revenue from adult tickets is .
Since drama club has tickets to sell, number of students tickets will be .
Student ticket costs . Since students who attend the school get discount, their ticket costs .
Two thirds of the student tickets will be discounted. Therefore, revenue from discounted student tickets will be
is cost of the student ticket with discount, and is a number of students with discount.
Since wo thirds of the student tickets will be discounted, one third will not. () Therefore, revenue from discounted student tickets will be
is cost of the student ticket without discount, and is a number of students without discount.
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