SOLUTION: A total of tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult ticke

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Question 471918: A total of tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?
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Let represent the number of student tickets sold.

Let represent the number of adult tickets sold.

Let represent the total number of tickets sold.

Let represent the number of student tickets that exceeded the number of adult tickets.





Substitute from the 2nd equation into the first equation:







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