SOLUTION: Students can buy tickets to a basketball game for $1. The admission for nonstudents is $2. If 350 tickets are sold and the total receipts are $450, how many student tickets are sol

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Question 362995: Students can buy tickets to a basketball game for $1. The admission for nonstudents is $2. If 350 tickets are sold and the total receipts are $450, how many student tickets are sold?
Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Students can buy tickets to a basketball game for $1. The admission for nonstudents is $2. If 350 tickets are sold and the total receipts are $450, how many student tickets are sold?
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let student tickets sold be x--------------$1
non student will be 350-x---------------$2
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1*x+2(350-x)=450
x+700-2x=450
-x=-250
x= 250 student tickets
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