Your school drama club is putting on a play and hopes to raise $600 from ticket sales. They sell adult tickets for $8 each and s

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Your school drama club is putting on a play and hopes to raise $600 from ticket sales. They sell adult tickets for $8 each and s

tudent tickets for $5 each. Let x represent the number of adult tickets and y represent the number of student tickets. The equation to represent the number of tickets sold to reach their goal, 8x+ 5y = 600, is graphed below. If 40 adult tickets are sold, how many student tickets must be sold to reach their goal?
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igor_vitrenko [27] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-18T21:49:44+03:00

igor_vitrenko [27]3 years ago

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8x40=320 +280=600 5x50=250 +5x6=30 320+250+30+600 so they will have to sell 40 adult tickets and 256 student tickets to accomplish their goal