SOLUTION: kyle was in charge of ticket sales for the upcoming track meet. the cost of tickets was $3 for students and $6 for adults they collected $840 from tickets sales there were a total

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Question 993289: kyle was in charge of ticket sales for the upcoming track meet. the cost of tickets was $3 for students and $6 for adults they collected $840 from tickets sales there were a total of 200 tickets sold . use x for the amount of students tickets sold . write an expression for the amount of adult tickets sold
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
No need to solve for number of tickets sold. The description gives x=200.

You can solve for s, how many student tickets and y, how many adult tickets.




Subtract the two equations

and .
Answer by MathTherapy(10555)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
kyle was in charge of ticket sales for the upcoming track meet. the cost of tickets was $3 for students and $6 for adults they collected $840 from tickets sales there were a total of 200 tickets sold . use x for the amount of students tickets sold . write an expression for the amount of adult tickets sold 
With x being the number of student tickets sold, number of adult tickets sold is:  

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