SOLUTION: Tickets for a piano concert sold for $4.50 for each adult ticket. Student tickets sold for $2.00 each. the total receipts for 1720 tickets were $5980. Find the number of adult tick

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Question 577710: Tickets for a piano concert sold for $4.50 for each adult ticket. Student tickets sold for $2.00 each. the total receipts for 1720 tickets were $5980. Find the number of adult tickets sold.
Answer by nyc_function(2741) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let a = adult
Let s = student
a + s = 1720
4.5a + 2s = 5980

Solving by substitution method, I got the number of adult tickets sold is 1016 and the number of student tickets sold is 704.