There were 175 tickets sold for the upcoming event in the gym. If students tickets cost $5 and adult

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    There were 175 tickets sold for the upcoming event in the gym. If students tickets cost $5 and adult tickets are $8, tell me how many tickets were sold if gate receipts totaled $1028?

    Let s be the number of student tickets and a be the number of adult tickets. We are given:
    a + s = 175
    8a + 5s = 1028

    There are 3 ways to solve this, all of which give us:
    a = 51
    s = 124

    Substitution Method
    Elimination Method
    Cramers Method
     

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