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Posted by jim on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 9:10pm.

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.

math - Reiny, Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 9:31pm
number of student tickets --- x
number of adult tickets --- 400-x

2x + 3(400-x) = 1050

pretty straightforward to solve for x

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