SOLUTION: At a charity basketball gamefortune 50 tickets are sold to students out of school the remaining X tickets are sold to the public the prices of the two types of tickets are shown th

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Question 1063005: At a charity basketball gamefortune 50 tickets are sold to students out of school the remaining X tickets are sold to the public the prices of the two types of tickets are shown there's a student ticket that is $15 and 450 of those tickets were soldthere were a public tickets which were $25 X tickets were sold when all the tickets are sold $10,500 is collected how many tickets were sold to the public
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x student tickets at $15 each
y public tickets at $25 each

450 student tickets were sold.
x=450

Revenue for all the tickets : $10500
450%2A15%2By%2A25=10500

25y=10500-450%2A15
highlight%28y=150%29--------number of public tickets sold.