SOLUTION: Real World Application-Elimination
Suppose your community center sells a total of 292 tickets for a basketball game. An adult ticket costs $3. A student ticket costs $1. The
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Question 153027: Real World Application-Elimination
Suppose your community center sells a total of 292 tickets for a basketball game. An adult ticket costs $3. A student ticket costs $1. The sponsors collect $470 in ticket sales. Write and solve a system to find the number of each type of ticket sold.
Define:
Let a= # of adult tickets
Let s= # of student tickets.
Total # of tickets a + s=292
Total amount of sales 3a + 1s= 470
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So far, so good. No use elimination to solve
a + s=292
3a + 1s= 470 Subtract this one from the one above it
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-2a + 0 = -178
a = 89
s = 292-89 = 203
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