Jillian’s school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for

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Jillian’s school is selling tickets for a play. The tickets cost $10.50 for adults and $3.75 for students. The ticket sales for

opening night totaled $2071.50. The equation 10.50a + 3.75b = 2071.50, where a is the number of adult tickets sold and b is the number of student tickets sold, can be used to find the number of adult and student tickets. If 82 students attended, how may adult tickets were sold?

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8090 [49] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-15T18:08:06+03:00

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10.50a + 3.75b = 2071.50
82 x 3.75 = 307.50
2071.50 - <span>307.50 = 1764
</span>1764/10.50 = 168
10.50(168) + 3.75(82) = 2071.50
1764 x 307.50 = 2071.50