SOLUTION: You and your friend are selling raffle tickets for a new laptop. You sell 14 more tickets than your friend sells. Together, you and your friend sell 58 tickets. a. Write a syste

Question 1025233: You and your friend are selling raffle tickets for a new laptop. You sell 14 more tickets than your friend sells. Together, you and your friend sell 58 tickets.
a. Write a system of linear equations that represents this situation. Let x represent the number of tickets you sell and y represent the number of tickets your friend sells.
b. How many tickets does each of you sell?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(1)
(2)
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Substitute (1) ino 92)
(2)
(2)
(2)
and
(2)
(2)
I sell 36 tickets
You sell 22 tickets
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