SOLUTION: Miscellaneous Problem:
A museum charges $5 for admission ticket, but members receive a $1 discount and students are admitted for half price. One Saturday, 1,050 tickets were sol
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Question 875436: Miscellaneous Problem:
A museum charges $5 for admission ticket, but members receive a $1 discount and students are admitted for half price. One Saturday, 1,050 tickets were sold for a total of $4,035. If 35 more students' tickets than full price tickets were sold, find number of each type of tickets sold.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Normal charge, $5
Members, $4
Students, $2.5
x, y, z, for count of tickets sold as Normal, Members, Students.
and .
The additional ticket relationship description means , which is equivalent to .
You can use a matrix,
I used an online matrix calculator, http://www.math.purdue.edu/~dvb/gaussian.php ,
and found these results:
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x=225
y=565
z=260
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