An amusement park earned $1382.50 in the first five minutes of opening; a total of 287 tickets. If each adult ticket was $8 and each student ticket was $3.50, how many adult tickets were sold? How many student tickets?

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anonymous · Answer

I haven't been able to solve this problem for weeks!! Please help!!

anonymous · Answer

I think it has to do with Matrixies but i cannot figure it out!

anonymous · Answer

Let adult tickets be a 
Let student tickets be b

a + b = 287

8a + 3.5b = 1382.5

anonymous · Answer

b = 287 -a 

substitute this into the second equation

anonymous · Answer

ok i am trying to work it out...will you please wait to see if i get the right answer?

anonymous · Answer

84  tickets for adults
203 tickets for kids