This document contains a multi-step word problem about a theater club that sold tickets for a performance. It asks the reader to determine how many student tickets and adult tickets were sold based on the total number of tickets (133) and money raised ($471). It prompts the reader to make conjectures, test them, and revise as needed to solve the problem in a step-by-step manner.

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Simplify Bellwork
3x ­ 2(x + 1)
2x ­ 3y + x
Objective ­ try, test, revise
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The theater club at school put on a play. For one performance, the club sold
133 tickets and raised $471. Tickets cost $4 for adults and $3 for students.
How many student tickets and how many adult tickets did the club sell?
1. How much does each type of ticket cost?
2. How many tickets did the club sell for the performance?
3. How much money did the club raise from ticket sales for this performance?
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4. When you make a conjecture for how many adult tickets were sold, how can
you use your conjecture to find how many student tickets could have been sold?
5. By what number do you multiply your conjecture of adult tickets sold to find
how much money was made on adult tickets?
Adult Student Total Money
Tickets Tickets (in dollars)
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6. Suppose the club sold the same number of tickets, but raised $452.
How many tickets of each type did the theater sell?
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