document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1196207>Question 1196207</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A total of 380 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 70 fewers student Tickets then adult tickets. how many adult tickets were bought ? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "A total of 380 tickets were sold for the school play. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "They were either adult tickets or student tickets. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "There were 70 fewers student Tickets then adult tickets. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "how many adult tickets were bought ?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let \"a\" be the number of adult tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the number of student tickets is (a-70).\r\n" );
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document.write( "The total number of the tickets is a + (a-70) = 2a-70, and it equals 380 tickets, gibing an equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    2a - 70 = 380.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It implies  \r\n" );
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document.write( "    2a = 380 + 70 = 450,\r\n" );
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document.write( "     a            = 450/2 = 225.\r\n" );
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document.write( "<U>ANSWER</U>.  225 adult tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solved.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is a standard and typical tickets problem.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "There are different methods of solving such problems.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "In this site, there is a lesson\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "explaining and showing different methods of solving such problems.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "From this lesson, &nbsp;learn on how to solve such problems once and for all.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The referred lesson is the part of this online textbook under the topic \"<U>Systems of two linear equations in two unknowns</U>\".\r<BR>\n" );
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