SOLUTION: Five hundred tickets were sold for a fundraising dinner. the receipts totaled $34000. adult tickets were $7.50 each and childrens ticket were $14 each. how many tickets of each typ
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Question 356695: Five hundred tickets were sold for a fundraising dinner. the receipts totaled $34000. adult tickets were $7.50 each and childrens ticket were $14 each. how many tickets of each type were sold?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of adult tickets, the number of children's tickets.
1.
2.
Multiply eq. 1 by (-14) and add to eq. 2 to eliminate and solve for .
Something is wrong with your problem setup.
The solution for A does not come out to be an integer which it needs to be.
I also changed the problem around and made the adult tickets $14 and the children's tickets $7.50 with similar issues.
Please re-check the problem and re-post.
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