SOLUTION: Tickets to a concert sere sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. Is the total receipts were $824, and twice as many adult tickets were sold as student tickets, how many of e

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Question 322345: Tickets to a concert sere sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. Is the total receipts were $824, and twice as many adult tickets were sold as student tickets, how many of each were sold?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let A be the number of adult tickets, S students tickets.
1.3A%2B2S=824
2.A=2S
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,
3%282S%29%2B2S=824
6S%2B2S=824
8S=824
S=103tickets
Then from eq. 2,
A=2%28103%29=206tickets