SOLUTION: For the school play, adult tickets cost $15.00 and student tickets cost $10.00. If 140 tickets were sold, and the total receipts were $1600, how many student tickets were sold? Can

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Question 1160957: For the school play, adult tickets cost $15.00 and student tickets cost $10.00. If 140 tickets were sold, and the total receipts were $1600, how many student tickets were sold? Can I get the formula and the answer so I can figure out how it's done and if I got the same answer.
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Let represent the number of adult tickets sold and let represent the number of student tickets sold. Then is the value, in dollars, of the adult tickets and is the value of the student tickets. Which leads to:





Solve the 2X2 system and report the value of .

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John

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