SOLUTION: 744 tickets were sold for a total of $4527, student tickets cost $5.5 and adult tickets are $8.5. How many tickets of each type were sold?
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Question 172539: 744 tickets were sold for a total of $4527, student tickets cost $5.5 and adult tickets are $8.5. How many tickets of each type were sold?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
# of Adult tickets =
# of student tickets =
(1)
(2)
Multiply (1) by and subtract from (2)
There were 145 adult tickets sold
and 599 student tickets sold
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