Problema Solution
A full price ticket fro a college game costs $2.50 and a student ticket costs $1.75. If 585 tickets were cold, and the total receipts were $1217.25, how many tickets were student tickets?
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Let 'f' stand for the number of full priced tickets sold and 's' stand for the number of student tickets sold. Therefore, we can write
f+s=585
f(2.5)+s(1.75)=1217.25
Using Algebrator to solve for 'f' and 's', we get:
f=258
s=327
Therefore, 327 of the tickets sold were student tickets.