SOLUTION: School prom committee sold 300 tickets to the prom dinner and collected $5256. There were two choices a steak dish that costs $18 and a fish dish that cost $16. Now write a system
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Question 552618: School prom committee sold 300 tickets to the prom dinner and collected $5256. There were two choices a steak dish that costs $18 and a fish dish that cost $16. Now write a system of equations
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have a question that involves two things. You have information about the total number of things, about the value of one unit of each of the things, and about the total value of both things put together. If you let 
represent the number of one of the things and 
represent the number of the other thing, and 
is the total number of both things together, then you can write an equation like this:
Then if 
is the value of one item of , 
is the value of one item of , and 
is the total value of all of the things, then you can write a second equation like this:
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