SOLUTION: Parents sold 275 tickets for a fundraiser at the community center. The student tickets costs $3 and adults tickets cost $5. The total value of tickets sold is $1,025 I need to find
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Question 1089421: Parents sold 275 tickets for a fundraiser at the community center. The student tickets costs $3 and adults tickets cost $5. The total value of tickets sold is $1,025 I need to find the best system of equation to represent this problem and I got 3x + y = 275
x + 5y = 1,025 is this right It does not seem right to me
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
student tickets and adults tickets
sold =>
.....eq.1
if the student tickets costs $ and adults tickets cost $, and The total value of tickets sold is $, than we have
.....eq.2
the system of equation to represent this problem is:
.....eq.1
.....eq.2
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use substitution
.....eq.1...solve for
go to
.....eq.2, substitute and solve for
go to
substitute and solve for
so,from tickets sold, tickets were sold to adults and tickets were sold to students
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