SOLUTION: 1. A full-price ticket for a college basketball game costs $5, and a student ticket costs $4.50. If 700 tickets were sold, and the total receipts were $3,370.00, how many tickets
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Question 354668: 1. A full-price ticket for a college basketball game costs $5, and a student ticket costs $4.50. If 700 tickets were sold, and the total receipts were $3,370.00, how many tickets were student tickets?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi.
Let n be the number of full price tickets then (700-n) will be the number of student tickets
question states*
4.50(700-n) + 5.00n = 3370.00
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simplify
.5n = 3370-3150 = 220
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n = 440 full price tickets
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260 of the tickets were student tickets
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check your answer
1170 + 2200 = 3370
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