SOLUTION: There were 592 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. The general admission  tickets cost ​$6.50 and the upper reserved tickets cost ​$8.00. Th

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Question 1110058: There were 592 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. The general admission  tickets cost ​$6.50 and the upper reserved tickets cost ​$8.00. The total amount of money spent was ​$4199.00. How many of each kind of ticket were​ purchased?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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Typical two-variable, two-equation, linear system of equations example.

g, general admission
r, upper reserved

system%28g%2Br=592%2C6.5g%2B8r=4199%29

Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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To see other similar solved problems of this type, look into the lesson
    - Using systems of equations to solve problems on tickets
    - Three methods for solving standard (typical) problems on tickets
in this site.

Learn from these lessons on how to solve such problems once for all.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Systems of two linear equations in two unknowns".