SOLUTION: 93 passengers rode in a train. Tickets for regular coach seats cost $124. Tickets for sleeper cars seats cost $292. The receipts for the trip totaled $20604. How many passengers pu
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Question 1093738: 93 passengers rode in a train. Tickets for regular coach seats cost $124. Tickets for sleeper cars seats cost $292. The receipts for the trip totaled $20604. How many passengers purchased each type of ticket? Coach? Sleeper car? Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! coach : c
sleeper: s
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c+s = 93 subtract c from both sides:
s = 93 - c
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124c + 292s = 20604
substitute for s:
124c + 292(93 - c) = 20604
124c + 27156 - 292c = 20604
-168c = -6552 divide, and remember that -/- = +
c = 39
and s = 93 - c = 93 - 39 = 54
