SOLUTION: There are 326 students AND parents that went to Disneyland. Students cost $5 per head and parents cost $8 per head. If the total money collected is $1792, how many STUDENTS went to
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Question 974969: There are 326 students AND parents that went to Disneyland. Students cost $5 per head and parents cost $8 per head. If the total money collected is $1792, how many STUDENTS went to Disneyland? Thank you very much! :)
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of students and let 
represent the number of parents.
We are given that there are 326 students and parents, so:
Since student tickets are valued at 
and there are students, the value of all of the student tickets must be 
dollars. Likewise, the value of all of the parent tickets are worth 
dollars. Furthermore, the total value of all the tickets was 
, so we can say:
Solve the two by two linear system and report the value of , the number of students.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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