SOLUTION: Ticket sales. Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for
$3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824
and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were
so
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Question 242708: Ticket sales. Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for
$3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824
and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were
sold, then how many of each were sold?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A=2S
3A+2S=824
3*2S+2S=824
6S+2S=824
8S=824
S=824/8
S=103 STUDENT TICKETS WERE SOLD.
2*103=206 ADULT TICKETS WERE SOLD.
PROOF:
3*206+2*103=824
618+206=824
824=824
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