SOLUTION: A total of tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult ticke
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Question 471918: A total of tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of student tickets sold.
Let 
represent the number of adult tickets sold.
Let 
represent the total number of tickets sold.
Let 
represent the number of student tickets that exceeded the number of adult tickets.
Substitute from the 2nd equation into the first equation:
\ +\ y\ =\ T)
And that is as far as anyone can go without the information you left out.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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