SOLUTION: A motel rents double rooms at $35 per day and single rooms at $24 per day. If 24 rooms were rented one day for a total of $730, how many rooms of each kind were rented?

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Question 629816: A motel rents double rooms at $35 per day and single rooms at $24 per day. If 24 rooms were rented one day for a total of $730, how many rooms of each kind were rented?
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Let represent the number of double rooms, then the number of single rooms has to be

Then



Solve for , then calculate

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