Problema Solution

Adult ticketto a basketball game cost $5. Student tickets cost $1. A total of $2,874 was collected on the sale of $1,246 tickets. How many of each type of ticket were sold ?

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Let

x = the number of adult tickets

y = the number of student tickets

x + y = 1246

5x + y = 2874

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x = 407 adult tickets

y = 839 student tickets

There were 407 adult and 839 student tickets sold.