SOLUTION: Concert tickets cost $25 for the balcony and $40 for the first floor. If the total amount collected for 325 tickets was $10,000 how many of each tickets was sold?
What I did was
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Question 677682: Concert tickets cost $25 for the balcony and $40 for the first floor. If the total amount collected for 325 tickets was $10,000 how many of each tickets was sold?
What I did was I put it into a equation.
25x+40y=10,000 I don't know if thats right,
and how to solve it after.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You were correct, but you have 2 unknowns and
only 1 equation. The other equation is:
Multiply both sides of this equation by
and subtract from the other equation
and, since
200 balcony tickets were sold
125 1st floor tickets were sold
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