SOLUTION: Total receipts from the sale of 300 tickets to a school musical were 1130. If student tickets cost $3 and adult tickets $5, how many student tickets were sold?

Question 350621: Total receipts from the sale of 300 tickets to a school musical were 1130. If student tickets cost $3 and adult tickets $5, how many student tickets were sold?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of student tickets, the number of adult tickets.
1.
2.
Multiply eq. 1 by (-3) and add to eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

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