SOLUTION: There were 365 tickets sold for a basketball game. The activity cardholders tickets cost $1.75 and the non-cardholders tickets cost $2.50. The total amount of money was $675.50. Ho

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Question 972834: There were 365 tickets sold for a basketball game. The activity cardholders tickets cost $1.75 and the non-cardholders tickets cost $2.50. The total amount of money was $675.50. How many of each kind of ticket were sold.
Answer by anand429(138) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let no. of cardholder tickets be x
and no. of non-cardholder tickets = y
So, as per question,
x%2By=365
and 1.75%2Ax+%2B+2.5%2Ay+=+675.50
Solving both equations,
x=316 and y=49