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Question 62491: You are selling tickets for a musical at your local community college. Student tickets cost $5 and general admission tickets cost $8. If you sell 500 tickets and collect $3475, how many student tickets and how many general admission Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Student tickets cost $5 and general admission tickets cost $8. If you sell 500 tickets and collect $3475, how many student tickets and how many general admission
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Let # of student tickets sold be "x" ; Value of those is 5x dollars
Number of gen. admis. sold is "500-x"; Value of those is
8(500-x)=4000-8x dollars.
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EQUATION:
value + value = 3475 dollars
5x+4000-8x=3475
-3x=-525
x=175 (number of student tickets sold)
500-x=325 (number of gen adm. tickets sold)
Cheers,
Stan H.
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