SOLUTION: The admission to a soccer game is $8.50 for adults and $5.50 for students. If 744 tickets were sold at a total price of $4527, how many tickets of each type were sold?

Question 379496: The admission to a soccer game is $8.50 for adults and $5.50 for students. If 744 tickets were sold at a total price of $4527, how many tickets of each type were sold?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the number of adult tickets, S the number of student tickets sold.
1.
2.
Multiply eq. 1 by (-550) and add to eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

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