Problema Solution

For a school play 340 tickets valued at $810 were sold some cost two dollars and some cost three dollars how many tickets of each kind were sold

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Let 'x' represent the number of tickets purchased at $2, then '340-x' represents the number of tickets purchased at $3. 

810=2x+3(340-x)

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x=210

340-210=130

So 210 tickets were purchased at $2 and 130 tickets were purchased at $3.