SOLUTION: There were 28,000 people at a ball game in Los Angeles. The day's pay receipts were $154,000. How many people paid $11 for reserved seats and how many paid $4 for general admission

Question 822782: There were 28,000 people at a ball game in Los Angeles. The day's pay receipts were $154,000. How many people paid $11 for reserved seats and how many paid $4 for general admission?
Answer by vanaynay26(3) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are going to make an equation that goes like this:
11x+4y=154,000
But you also need a scond equation and that will be:
x+y=28,000 ------> y=-x+28,000
Now, you will put it in the first equation like this:
11x+4(-x+28,000)=154,000
11x-4x+112,000=154,000
7x+112,000=154,000
-112,000 -112,000
7x=42,000
__ ____
7 7
x=6,000 tickets sold at $11

Now, you will find out how many for $4
11(6,000)+4y=154,000
66,000+4y=154,000
-66,000 -66,000
4y=88,000
__ _____
4 4
y= 22,000 tickets sols at $4

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