Question 128030: selling tickets for a play, 4 dollars for student 6 dollars for general. you sell 525 tickets and collect $2876. how many types of tickets did you sell.
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! selling tickets for a play, 4 dollars for student 6 dollars for general. you sell 525 tickets and collect $2876. how many types of tickets did you sell.
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Let # of student tickets sold be "x" ; Value of these is 4x dollars.
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# of general tickets sold is "525-x" ; Value is 6(525-x)= 3150-6x dollars
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EQUATION:
value + value = 2876 dollars
4x + 3150-6x = 2876
-2x = -274
x = 137 (# of student tickets sold)
525-x = 388 (# of general tickets sold)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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