Students can buy tickets to a basketball game for $2.00. The admission for nonstudents is $3.00. If 340 tickets are sold and the total receipts are $740, how many student tickets are sold?
2 Answers
370
Explanation:
Explanation:
There are two different prices for tickets:
Students pay
Let the number of students be
Let the number of other people be
The money paid by all the students is
The money paid by all the others is
We can make two equations:
One for the total number of people:
One for the total amount of money
Solve them for
If
There were
Check:
Total