SOLUTION: Please help me quickly, I am trying to help my daughter with her homework. Problem: At a concert, main floor seats sell for $25.00 and Upper Level seats sell for $12.00. The

Question 186343: Please help me quickly, I am trying to help my daughter with her homework.
Problem:
At a concert, main floor seats sell for $25.00 and Upper Level seats sell for $12.00. There were 50,000 people in attendance and the concert total ticket sales is $1,112,000. How many main floor seats and upper level seats were sold?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of main floor tickets sold
Let = number of upper level tickets sold
given:
(1)
(2)
There are 2 equations and 2 unknowns. When the
number of equations matches the number of unknowns,
it is solvable.
Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract from (2)
(2)
(1)
(3)
(3) (rounded off)
and
(1)
(1)
(1) (rounded off)
39,385 mainfloor seats were sold and 10615 upper level
seats were sold
check answer:
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2) (close enough)
and
(1)
(1)
(1)
OK
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