SOLUTION: Question: You are selling football tickets. Student tickets cost $2 and general admission tickets cost $5. You sell three times as many general admission tickets as student t

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You are selling football tickets. Student tickets cost $2 and general admission tickets cost $5. You sell three times as many general admission tickets as student tickets and collect $1700. How many of each type of ticket did you sell?
This is what I have so far.
n=Student Tickets n(3)=general admission tickets
n+3n=1700
n=425 student tickets n(3)=1275 general admission tickets.
Is this correct?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assign n = # of student tickets and m = # of general admin tickets. You have to then separate the equation into a number-of-tickets equation, 3n = m, and a value-of-tickets equation, 2n + 5m = 1700. If you substitute 3n in for m in the value equation, you get 17n = 1700, and then n = 100. You can find m = 300 and you're all done.
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