SOLUTION: tickets to a school basketball game cost $4 for students and $7 for adults. At the end of the night, 168 tickets are sold for a total of $861. How many student tickets were sold

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Question 1150324: tickets to a school basketball game cost $4 for students and $7 for adults. At the end of the night, 168 tickets are sold for a total of $861. How many student tickets were sold
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josmiceli:
Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Equation


    4*x + 7*(168-x) = 861


Solution    x =  = 105.    ANSWER

Solved.


Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of student tickets sold
Let = number of adult tickets sold
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(1)
(2)
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Multiply both sides of (1) by and
subtract (1) from (2)
(2)
(1)
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and
(1)
(1)
(1)
105 student tickets were sold
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check:
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK
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