SOLUTION: You are selling tickets to a football game. Student tickets cost $4 and general admission costs $7. You sell 213 tickets and collect $1146. How many of each type of ticket id you s

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Question 284173: You are selling tickets to a football game. Student tickets cost $4 and general admission costs $7. You sell 213 tickets and collect $1146. How many of each type of ticket id you sell?
Answer by rfer(16322) About Me  (Show Source):
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s+a=213
4s+7a=1146
4(213-a)+7a=1146
852-4a+7a=1146
3a=294
a=98
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s+98=213
s=115
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4(115)+7(98)=1146
460+686=1146