document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=577710>Question 577710</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Tickets for a piano concert sold for $4.50 for each adult ticket. Student tickets sold for $2.00 each. the total receipts for 1720 tickets were $5980. Find the number of adult tickets sold. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let s = student\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a + s = 1720<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4.5a + 2s = 5980\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solving by substitution method, I got the number of adult tickets sold is 1016 and the number of student tickets sold is 704.\r<BR>\n" );
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