SOLUTION: Adult tickets to the football game are $5.00. Children's tickets are $3.25. If the boosters sold 247 tickets and took in $662.75, how many adult tickets were sold?
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Question 310863: Adult tickets to the football game are $5.00. Children's tickets are $3.25. If the boosters sold 247 tickets and took in $662.75, how many adult tickets were sold?
Answer by nyc_function(2741) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a system of linear equations in two variables.
Let a = adult tickets
Let c = children's tickets
a + c = 247
a(5.00) + b(3.25) = 662.75
Can you solve for a and c now?
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