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Question 233390: t the opening night of the phantom of the opera, two different types of souvenirs were sold. posters sold for $20 each and t-shirts sold for $25 each. onw thousand souvenirs were sold in all for a total cost of $22,000. how many posters and t-shirts were sold?
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Let represent the number of posters. Let represent the number of t-shirts. Then the amount of money collected for posters would be dollars and the amount of money collected for t-shirts would be dollars.

Using the data given:





Solve the system. The values of and are the numbers of posters and t-shirts sold.


John