SOLUTION: Tickets for a school play sold for $2.50 for each adult and $1.00 for each child. The total receipts for 113 tickets sold were $221. Find the number of adult tickets sold.

Question 317183: Tickets for a school play sold for $2.50 for each adult and $1.00 for each child. The total receipts for 113 tickets sold were $221. Find the number of adult tickets sold.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the number of adult tickets, B the number of child tickets.
1.
2.
Multiply eq. 1 by -1 and add to eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

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