SOLUTION: Marc sold 497 tickets for the school play. Student tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $5. Marc's sales totaled $2283. How many of each type of ticket did Marc sell. This is my

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Question 977022: Marc sold 497 tickets for the school play. Student tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $5. Marc's sales totaled $2283. How many of each type of ticket did Marc sell. This is my summer homework problem and im going into geometry next year so I need to know the algebra fundamentals and iv seen many problems like this and never been able to solve it. So if you help thank you so much.
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Organize all the data.

497 tickets;
4 dollars per ticket, STUDENT
5 dollars per ticket, ADULT
2283 dollars, sales revenue for the 497 tickets.

Question: How many adult tickets and how many student tickets?

ASSIGN VARIABLES
y, count of adult tickets
x, count of student tickets

FORM EQUATIONS
highlight%28system%28x%2By=497%2C4x%2B5y=2283%29%29

SOLVE THE SYSTEM FOR x AND y.