SOLUTION: a total of 306 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adults tickets or student tickets. the number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult ticke

Question 937685: a total of 306 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adults tickets or student tickets. the number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold. how many adult tickets were sold?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, student tickets
y, adult tickets

, exact translation of the description into a system of equations. Solve for the value of y.

The process can be, solve for x in terms of y, already seen as THE second equation of the system; substitute into the other equation, and solve the result for y, and compute.

----------adult tickets sold.
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