SOLUTION: Ticket sales. 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 student tickets were
so
Question 185997: Ticket sales. 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 student tickets were
sold, then how many of each were sold? Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Ticket sales. 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 student tickets were
sold, then how many of each were sold?
:
let number of adult and student tickets be a and s respectively
:
a=2s......eq 1
3a+2s=824..eq 2
:
take a's value from eq 1 and plug it into eq 2
:
3(2s)+2s=824
:
8s=824
: number of student tickets
: number of adult tickets
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