SOLUTION: Six times as many grandstand tickets(g) as box-seat tickets(b) were sold for the baseball game. Grandstand tickets cost $15 and box-seat tickets cost $24. The total amount of tic

Question 143501: Six times as many grandstand tickets(g) as box-seat tickets(b) were sold for the baseball game. Grandstand tickets cost $15 and box-seat tickets cost $24. The total amount of ticket sales for grandstand and box-seat tickets was $90,744.
a) write a system of equations that describes the above situation

b) solve the system of equations you wrote in part a to find the number of box-seat tickets and grandstand tickets that were sold
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Substitute in 1st equation for
in 2nd equation

796 box seats and 4776 grandstand seats were sold
check answer:

OK
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