Problema Solution

Of the 600 tickets sold to a movie, 540 were full-price tickets costing $6 each. If the gate receipts were $3,360, what did a student ticket cost?

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Let 'x' represent the student ticket cost.  If 540 out of 600 tickets were sold at full price, then 60 tickets were sold at the student ticket cost:

3360=540*6+60x

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x=2

A student ticket cost $2.