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Question 1193415: A teacher supply store is sponsoring a raffle for teachers to win school supplies. The price of a raffle ticket is $1.00. For teachers the raffle tickets are 40% off, while for administrators there is a 10% discount. Ms. Russell purchased a combination of teacher-discount tickets and administrator-discount tickets for a total of 337 raffle tickets for the entire school. If she spent a total of $239.70 on raffle tickets, how many of each type did she purchase?
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Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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.60*x is teachers
.90(337-x) is for administrators
their sum=$239.70=.60x+303.3-0.9x
239.70=303.3-0.3x
-63.60=-0.3x
x=212 teacher tickets at 0.60=$127.20
337-x=125 adm tickets at 0.90=$112.50