Tickets to the school play cost $6 for students and $8 for adults. If 20 students and 12 adults bought tickets, how many dollars' worth of tickets were sold?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
The students bought $6 * 20 = $120 worth of tickets. The adults bought $8 * 12 = $96 worth of tickets. Together $120 + $96 = $216 worth of tickets were sold.
Thus, the answer is 216.