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Q1. A school is ordering tickets for a play. Student tickets cost 8 each, and adult tickets cost 14 each. The school buys a total of 25 tickets for 260 . How many adult tickets did the school buy?
Q2. A rectangular garden has perimeter 80 feet. A walkway of uniform width x feet is built entirely inside the garden along all four sides, leaving a rectangular grass area in the center. If the area of the walkway is 264 square feet and the length of the original garden is 8 feet more than its width, what is the value of x ?
Q3. A theater sells tickets for an evening show. For each adult ticket sold, the theater collects a dollars, and for each student ticket sold, it collects s dollars. On one night, the theater sold 20 more student tickets than adult tickets and collected a total of 1 , 260 dollars. If x represents the number of adult tickets sold, which expression is equivalent to the total amount collected that night, written in terms of x , a , and s ?
Q4. A school fundraiser sold only 5 -dollar and 8 -dollar raffle tickets. If every ticket sold had been a 5 -dollar ticket, the total revenue would have been 144 dollars less than the actual revenue. If every ticket sold had been an 8 -dollar ticket, the total revenue would have been 96 dollars more than the actual revenue. How many tickets were sold in all?
Q5. At a school fundraiser, only notebooks and pens were sold. Each notebook sold for \ 3 , an d e a c h p e n so l df or \ 2 . A total of 41 items were sold for \ 94 . H o w man y n o t e b oo k s w er eso l d ?