Help solving this solving systems using elimination word problem

Question

You and your friend are selling raffle tickets for a new laptop. You sell 14 more tickets than your friend sells. Together, you and your friend sell 58 tickets.

 

a. Write a system of linear equations that represents this situatio.

b. How many thickets do each of you sell?

 

Answer 1

If your friend sold t tickets, you sold t + 14. The two together should add up to 58. Go from there.