SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a school musical sold for $3.50 and student tickets sold for $2.50. Three hundred twenty-one tickets were sold altogether for $937.50. How many of each type of ti

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Question 186126This question is from textbook Algebra 1
: Adult tickets for a school musical sold for $3.50 and student tickets sold for $2.50. Three hundred twenty-one tickets were sold altogether for $937.50. How many of each type of tickets were sold?This question is from textbook Algebra 1

Answer by hkelson(7) About Me  (Show Source):
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This problem is a matter of trial and error. Start with the adult tickets. This is how I did it and it may or may not work for you because it is time consuming.
I started with 120 adult tickets sold.
120 * 3.50
Keep going until you find one that works. In this case I found out that there were 135 adult tickets sold and 186 student tickets.
135 * 3.50 = 472.50
186 * 2.50 = 465.00
I multiplied 135 by 3.50 and got that answer then subtracted 135 from the total of 321 and multiplied that by 2.50. I then added the 2 totals together and came out with the total of $937.50.