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  • 02-02-2017
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The gym is filled with 215 students & adults. Student tickets are $.50 and adults are $2.00. If $250.00 was collected, how many adult tickets and how many student tickets were purchased?

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MissPhiladelphia
MissPhiladelphia MissPhiladelphia
  • 16-02-2017

In order to determine the correct answer, it would be helpful to set up equations. We do as follows:

Let x = students
      y = adults

x + y = 215
.50x + 2y = 250

SOlving simultaneously, we have:

x = 120 students 
y = 95 adults

Hope this answers the question. Have a nice day.

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