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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Verizon [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-10T05:13:05+03:00

Verizon [17]3 years ago

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3.75 x 82 = 307.5 2071.5 - 307.5 = 1764 1764 / 10.5 = 168 I think this should be correct. 168 adult tickets were sold