Question

a theater is selling tickets to a play. adult tickets cost $8 each and childrens tickets cost $5 each. they collect $275 after selling x adult tickets and y childrens tickets. what does the point (30, 7) mean in this situation? it means that adult tickets and childrens tickets were sold and they collected a total

Explanation:

In a coordinate - pair $(x,y)$, the $x$ - value represents the number of adult tickets sold and the $y$ - value represents the number of children's tickets sold. For the point $(30,7)$, the $x$ - coordinate is 30 and the $y$ - coordinate is 7.

Answer:

It means that 30 adult tickets and 7 children's tickets were sold.