SOLUTION: High School is putting on a school play. they decide to charge $11 for main floor seats and $7 for balcony seats. If the school sold twice as many main floor seats as balcony seats
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Question 641883: High School is putting on a school play. they decide to charge $11 for main floor seats and $7 for balcony seats. If the school sold twice as many main floor seats as balcony seats and made $870, how many of each type of seat did they sell?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of balcony seats sold and then 
is the number of main floor seats sold.
\ +\ 7x\ =\ 870)
Solve for
John
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