SOLUTION: A concert is attended by 300 people. Some paid ₵6.00 and the rest paid ₵5.00. the total receipts were ₵15800. Find how many dearer tickets were sold.

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Question 1175227: A concert is attended by 300 people. Some paid ₵6.00 and the rest paid ₵5.00. the
total receipts were ₵15800. Find how many dearer tickets were sold.

Found 3 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A concert is attended by 300 people. Some paid ₵6.00 and the rest paid ₵5.00. the
total receipts were ₵15800. Find how many dearer tickets were sold.
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Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


300 people each paying ₵5 would bring in a total of ₵1500.
300 people each paying ₵6 would bring in a total of ₵1800.

The actual total was ₵1580.

Observe on a number line that ₵1580 is 80/300 of the way from ₵1500 to ₵1800.

That means 80/300 of the tickets were the more expensive ₵6 tickets. With a total of 300 tickets sold, that means 80 of them were the ₵6 tickets.

ANSWER: 80 ₵6 tickets; 300-80 = 220 ₵5 tickets.

CHECK: 80(₵6)+220(₵5) = ₵480+₵1100 = ₵1580.



Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two types of ticket are the lower priced ones and the higher priced one.
x of the lower and y of the higher priced tickets.

If you want to use only one variable, you can use:
y of the higher priced
300-y of the lower priced


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Something is wrong with one of your given values.

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