Homework Help: algebra 1

Posted by jackson on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 9:06pm.

The attendance at a baseball game was 400 people. Student tickets cost $2 and adult tickets cost $3. Total ticket sales were $1050. How many tickets of each type were sold?

algebra 1 - PsyDAG, Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 12:52am
Let s = student tickets and a = adult tickets.

s + a = 400, so s = 400-a

2s + 3a = 1050

Substitute 400-a for s in second equation and solve for a. Insert that value into the first equation and solve for s. Check by inserting both values into the second equation.

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