document.write( "Question 1035515: the school recently performed 'shrek'. They solf two types of tockets, student and non-student to tickets. Student tickets cost 5$ each and non student tickets cost 9$ each. If they sold 250 more student tickets than non student tickets and earned a total of 7,018$, how many of each type did they sell? \n" ); document.write( "

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...they sold 250 more student tickets than non student tickets...
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document.write( "Let the number of non-student tickets be x\r\n" );
document.write( "Then the number of student tickets is x+250\r\n" );
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document.write( "                        Money    Money\r\n" );
document.write( "Type         Number     from     from      \r\n" );
document.write( " of           of        EACH      ALL\r\n" );
document.write( "ticket      tickets    ticket   tickets\r\n" );
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document.write( "student      x+250      $5       $5(x+250)\r\n" );
document.write( "non-student    x        $9       $9x\r\n" );
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document.write( "                         TOTAL = $7018\r\n" );
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document.write( " The equation comes from the \"Money from ALL tickets\" column.\r\n" );
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document.write( "            5(x+250) + 9x = 7018\r\n" );
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document.write( "           5x + 1250 + 9x = 7018\r\n" );
document.write( "               14x + 1250 = 7018    \r\n" );
document.write( "                      14x = 5760\r\n" );
document.write( "                        x = 412 = the number of non-student tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "he number of student tickets is x+250, which equals\r\n" );
document.write( "                              412+250 = 662\r\n" );
document.write( "                              So 662 student tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Checking:  662 student tickets is $3310 and 412 non-student is $3708\r\n" );
document.write( "            662 is 250 more than 412\r\n" );
document.write( "            And indeed $3310 + $3708 = $7018\r\n" );
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