SOLUTION: Students tickets cost 5 dollar each and adult ticket cost 10 dollar each. a total of 4500 dollar was collected. 700 tickets were sold. Write a system of equations that can be used

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Question 859162: Students tickets cost 5 dollar each and adult ticket cost 10 dollar each. a total of 4500 dollar was collected. 700 tickets were sold. Write a system of equations that can be used to find the number of student tickets ,s, and number of adults tickets , a, that were sold at the playoff game.
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Students tickets cost 5 dollar each and adult ticket cost 10 dollar each. a total of 4500 dollar was collected. 700 tickets were sold. Write a system of equations that can be used to find the number of student tickets ,s, and number of adults tickets , a, that were sold at the playoff game.
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let x=Number of students tickets sold
700-x=Number of adult tickets sold
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5x+10(700-x)=4500
5x+7000-10x=4500
5x=2500
x=500
700-x=200
Number of students tickets sold=500
Number of adult tickets sold=200