Answer:
512 student tickets.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x be number of student tickets and y be number of adult tickets.
We have been given that at Friday's football game 1,294 tickets were sold. We can represent this information as:
We are also told that each student ticket costs $5.00, and each adult ticket costs $8.00 and 1,294 tickets were sold for a total amount of $8,816. We can represent this information as:
From equation (1) we will get,
Substituting this value in equation (2) we will get,
Therefore, 512 student tickets were purchased at Fridays football game.
