SOLUTION: At a high school baseball game, G.O. members paid $3.50 each and non-members paid $5.00 each. There were 20 more G.O. members at the game than non-members. If the total receipts wa
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Question 1149429: At a high school baseball game, G.O. members paid $3.50 each and non-members paid $5.00 each. There were 20 more G.O. members at the game than non-members. If the total receipts was $750, how many tickets of each kind were sold?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! At a high school baseball game, G.O. members paid $3.50 each and non-members paid $5.00 each. There were 20 more G.O. members at the game than non-members. If the total receipts was $750, how many tickets of each kind were sold?
let G.O. members tickets be and non-members tickets
given:
G.O. members paid $ each =>
non-members paid $ each=>
if the total receipts was $, we have
.......eq.1
if there were more G.O. members at the game than non-members, we have
........eq.2-> substitute in eq.1
.......eq.1....solve for ->the number of non-members tickets
then
........eq.2 ->the number of G.O. members tickets
check:
.......eq.1
