Question 389688: A theater group sold a total of 440 tickets for $3940. Each regular ticket costs $5, each premium ticket costs $15, and each elite ticekt costs $25. The number of regular tickets was three times the number of premium and elite tickets combined. How many of each type of ticket were sold? Sole using a system of equations.
Answer by unlockmath(1688)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hello,
Let's have x represent regular tickets, y will be premium and z is elite.
Now we can set up 3 equations as:
x+y+z=440
5x+15y+25z=3940
x=3(y+z)
OK, from here let's see if you can solve this.
RJ
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