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! :)
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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

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