SOLUTION: At the opening basketball game, 1000 tickets were sold. Adult tickets cost $3.00 and student tickets cost $1.50. If $2475 was collected at the door, how many adult tickets were sol

Question 154230: At the opening basketball game, 1000 tickets were sold. Adult tickets cost $3.00 and student tickets cost $1.50. If $2475 was collected at the door, how many adult tickets were sold?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of adult tickets sold
Let = the number of student tickets sold

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Since ,

Substituting:

And since

650 adult tickets were sold
check answer:

OK
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