SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem. there were 672 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. the lower reserve tickets cost $9.50 and the upper reserved tickets cost

Question 1041036: Please help me solve this word problem.
there were 672 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. the lower reserve tickets cost $9.50 and the upper reserved tickets cost $8.00. the total amount of money spent was $5926.50. how many of each kind were purchased?
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Answer by jorel555(1290) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let n be the amount of lower reserve tickets bought. Then:
9.5n+8(672-n)=5926.5
9.5n+5376-8n=5926.5
1.5n=550.5
n=367
367 lower reserve tickets and 305 upper reserved tickets were sold ☺☺☺☺
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