SOLUTION: Translate to a system of equation. DO NOT SOLVE Please help me! One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival. Tickets cost $20 for co

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Question 678422: Translate to a system of equation. DO NOT SOLVE
Please help me!
One summer evening 1600 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont Summer Jazz Festival. Tickets cost $20 for covered pavilion seats and #15 for lawn seats. Total receipts were $26,000. How many of each ticket were sold.
x=number of pavilion seats
y=number of lawn seats
Complete the system of equation
x+y=?
?x + ?y = 26,000
Answer by ReadingBoosters(3246) (Show Source):
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number of pavilion tickets plus number of lawn tickets equals total of 1600 tickets.
x+y = 1600
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cost of pavilion tickets times number of pavilion tickets plus cost of lawn tickets times number of lawn tickets equals 26000
20x + 15y = 2600
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