document.write( "Question 1146552: A music festival sold two types of tickets, day passes and weekend passes. The day passes were $137, and the weekend pass was $150. The total ticket sales for the festival were $484,608. They sold 374 more day passes than weekend passes. How many day passes and how many weekend passes were sold?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #767829 by josmiceli(19441) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Let $\"+a+\"$ = number of day passes
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\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+137a+%2B+150b+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+a+=+b+%2B+374+\"$
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\n" ); document.write( "Plug (2) into (1)
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+137%2A%28+b+%2B+374+%29+%2B+150b+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+137b+%2B+51238+%2B+150b+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+287b+=+433370+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+b+=+1510+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "and
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+a+=+b+%2B+374+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+a+=+1510+%2B+374+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+a+=+1884+\"$
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\n" ); document.write( "1,884 day passes
\n" ); document.write( "1,510 weekend passes
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\n" ); document.write( "check:
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+137a+%2B+150b+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+137%2A1884+%2B+150%2A1510+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+258108+%2B+226500+=+484608+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+484608+=+484608+\"$
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