SOLUTION: Together Mark and Eric sold 1285 tickets for raffle draw of the club. Eric sold 10 more than twice the number of tickets Mark sold. How many was each able to sell?
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Question 254491: Together Mark and Eric sold 1285 tickets for raffle draw of the club. Eric sold 10 more than twice the number of tickets Mark sold. How many was each able to sell?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of tickets that Mark sold. Then Eric sold twice that many plus 10, or 
.
The sum of these two amounts is 1285, so:
Just solve for for the number Mark sold, then subtract from 1285 to find the number Eric sold.
John
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