SOLUTION: Tickets for a school play sells for $8 for floor seats and $6 for balcony seats. For one performance 72 tickets were sold it brought in $516. How may of each ticket was sold

Question 337019: Tickets for a school play sells for $8 for floor seats and $6 for balcony seats. For one performance 72 tickets were sold it brought in $516. How may of each ticket was sold
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let F be the number of floor seats,B the number of balcony seats.
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Substitute into eq. 1,

Then from eq. 1,

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