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3 May, 09:40

Jake, Sara, and Cole are selling tickets for the school drama show. Sara sells half as many tickets as Jake. Cole sells 6 more than twice as much as Jake. They sold a total of 538 tickets together.

a) Write an equation to represent the situation.

b) Solve to find how many tickets Sara sold.

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  1. 3 May, 11:34
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    We let x be the number of tickets that Sara and Jake sold individually. With this representation, the number of tickets sold by Cole is equal to 2x+6.

    (a) x + x + (2x + 6) = 538

    The value of x from the generated equation is 133.

    (b) Sara sold a total of 133 tickets.
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