SOLUTION: Translate to a system of equation. DO NOT SOLVE Please help me! One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival. Tickets cost $20 for co

Algebra.Com
Question 678422: Translate to a system of equation. DO NOT SOLVE
Please help me!
One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival. Tickets cost $20 for covered pavilion seats and #15 for lawn seats. Total receipts were $26,000. How many of each ticket were sold.
x=number of pavilion seats
y=number of lawn seats
Complete the system of equation
x+y=?
?x + ?y = 26,000

Answer by ReadingBoosters(3246)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
number of pavilion tickets plus number of lawn tickets equals total of 1600 tickets.
x+y = 1600
...
cost of pavilion tickets times number of pavilion tickets plus cost of lawn tickets times number of lawn tickets equals 26000
20x + 15y = 2600
.....................
Delighted to help.
-Reading Boosters
Website: www.MyHomeworkAnswers.com
Wanting for others what we want for ourselves.

RELATED QUESTIONS

One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival.... (answered by ikleyn)
One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival.... (answered by TimothyLamb)
One evening 1400 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival. Tickets (answered by ewatrrr)
One evening 1400 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont summer jazz festival tickets... (answered by josgarithmetic)
one evening 1600 concert tickets were sold. tickets cost $25.00 for pavilion seats and... (answered by stanbon)
Tickets to the "One Direction" concert cost $5 and $8. If 960 tickets were sold for a... (answered by nihar*2013)
admission for a college baseball game is $6 for box seats, $5 for the grandstand, and $3... (answered by bucky)
a concert venue sold 1700 tickets one evening tickets cost $25 for a covered pavilion... (answered by ikleyn,richwmiller)
As manager of the Continental Theatre, each evening Joe is responsible to verify the... (answered by solver91311)
One evening 1500 concert tickets were sold. Tickets cost $20 for pavillion seats and $15... (answered by solver91311)