how many students and how many non students attended?

Question

For opening night 474 tickets are sold. student paid $3.50 each, while non-students paid $5.50 each. if a total of $1957.00 was collected. How many students and How many non students attended?

Answer 1

Hi Emily, here were working with a system of two equations. So what you want to do is translate the problem into a system. We can start by letting x represent students and y represent non-students. The key to this is that one equation will represent tickets and the second equation will represent money. You have to stay consistent.

 

x+y=474

3.50x + 5.50y =1957.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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