SOLUTION: You are selling tickets for a high school play. Student tickets cost $4 and general admission tickets cost $6. You sell 525 tickets and collect $2876. How many of each type did you

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Question 24187: You are selling tickets for a high school play. Student tickets cost $4 and general admission tickets cost $6. You sell 525 tickets and collect $2876. How many of each type did you sell?
Found 2 solutions by Paul, chripchrip:
Answer by Paul(988) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the student tickets be x
Let the geral Admission tickets be y
x+y=525
y=525-x

4x+6y=2876 (subsitute for y)
4x+6(525-x)=2876
4x+3150-6x=2876
-2x=-274
x=137
y=525-137
y=388

Hence, about 137 childern tickets were sold and 388 gernal admission tickets were sold.
Paul.

Answer by chripchrip(6) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let student tickets be x and the general tickets be
525-X
4X+6(525-x)=2876
4x+3150-6x=2876
2x=274
x=137
the nos of student ticket are 137 and the nos of general admission tickets are 388