SOLUTION: Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824 and twice as many adult tickets as students tickets were sold, then how man
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Question 167337: Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824 and twice as many adult tickets as students tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold? Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! number of adults call a and number of students call s
a=2s------->eq.1
3a+2s=824-->eq.2
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substituting a's value from eq 1 into eq 2. we arrive at
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therefore a=2(103)=206
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