There were 190 people at the Junior-Senior dance Sasha and her friends attended. Junior tickets were $2.00 each and Senior tickets were $3.50 each. The total receipts for the dance were $530. How many Juniors bought tickets?

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Question

There were 190 people at the Junior-Senior dance Sasha and her friends attended. Junior tickets were $2.00 each and Senior tickets were $3.50 each. The total receipts for the dance were $530. How many Juniors bought tickets?

 70

 80

 90

 100

anonymous · Answer

The system of equations that you will want to solve to solve the question is: 
2x+3.5y=530
x+y=190

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

Alternatively, if you are not familiar with that method, you can use guess-and-check and plug in each answer to see whether or not it is correct.

anonymous · Answer

got it thanks