SOLUTION: A total of 714 tickets were sold for the school play. There were 64 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Question 326853: A total of 714 tickets were sold for the school play. There were 64 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of adult tickets, student tickets.
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2.
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,

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