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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> You are selling tickets for a high school play. Student tickets cost $4 and general admission tickets cost $6. You sell 525 tickets and collect @2876. How many of each type of ticket did you sell? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( " Let number os student tickets sold be x<BR>\n" );
document.write( " and the number of general tickets sold be y\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "  Total number of tickets= 525<BR>\n" );
document.write( "              x+y=525<BR>\n" );
document.write( "              x=525-y              .....(i)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " Cost of one student ticket = $4<BR>\n" );
document.write( " Therefore cost of x tickets= $4*x=4x<BR>\n" );
document.write( " Cost of one general ticket= $6<BR>\n" );
document.write( " Therefore cost of y tickets =$6*y=6y<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " Total money collected=2876<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   4x+6y=2876<BR>\n" );
document.write( "substituting the value of x from equation (i)we have<BR>\n" );
document.write( "  4(525-y)+6y=2876<BR>\n" );
document.write( "  2100-4y+6y=2876<BR>\n" );
document.write( "  2100+2y=2876<BR>\n" );
document.write( "  2100+2y-2100=2876-2100<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   2y=776<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "    y = 388<BR>\n" );
document.write( " substituting the value of y in equation (i) we have\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   x=525-y<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   x=525-388<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   x=137<BR>\n" );
document.write( " therefore number of students tickets sold=137<BR>\n" );
document.write( " and number of general tickets sold=388\r<BR>\n" );
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