SOLUTION: Problem: For a student club fund-raiser, the number of $2 raffle tickets printed was three times the number of $5 tickets. If all the tickets are sold, receipts from the $5 tickets

Question 145161: Problem: For a student club fund-raiser, the number of $2 raffle tickets printed was three times the number of $5 tickets. If all the tickets are sold, receipts from the $5 tickets will be $50 less than those from the $2 tickets. How many $5 tickets were printed?
What equation do i use to find the answer to this question?
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x= number of $5 tickets sold
then 3x = number of $2 tickets sold

Then from:"If all the tickets are sold, receipts from the $5 tickets will be $50 less than those from the $2 tickets."
We can derive our equation:
5x = 2(3x) - 50
Do you see how the equation was derived? Does that make sense?
Can you complete it from here?

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