Your class sells a total of 88 tickets to a special event. A student ticket costs $1.50 and an adult ticket costs $3.00. Your class collects $174 in total ticket sales. How many adult tickets did you sell? How many student tickets did you sell?

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?