SOLUTION: john and mike sold 58 tickets. john sold 14 more than mike what is linear equation

Question 1024042: john and mike sold 58 tickets. john sold 14 more than mike what is linear equation

Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let j and m be the number of tickets John and Mike sold. Then we can write
j + m = 58 and
j = m + 14
These are the equations we use to solve this.
To do so, we will substitute into the first equation, like this...
m+14 + m = 58
2m + 14 = 58
2m = 44
m = 22 tickets
j = m + 14 = 36 tickets
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