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Question

there were 505 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. the lower reserved tickets costs $9.50 and the upper box costs $10.00 the total amount of money spent was $4874.00. How many of each kind of ticket were purchased?

Answer 1

Let x no of tickets of $9.50 and Y for $10. Then the equations are

 

x+y=500

 

9.50x+10y=4874

 

solving these you get x=252  y=248