You are selling tickets for a high school play. Student tickets cost four dollars and general admission tickets cost six dollars. You sell 525 tickets and collect 2876 dollars. How many of each type of ticket did you sell.
Solve using the substitution method( linear systems )

Question

You are selling tickets for a high school play. Student tickets cost four dollars and general admission tickets cost six dollars. You sell 525 tickets and collect 2876 dollars. How many of each type of ticket did you sell.
Solve using the substitution method( linear systems )

anonymous · Answer

x + y = 525  and  4x + 6y = 2876.  Substitute and solve for each variable.

campbell_st · Answer

call the tickets s for student and g for general 

the total tickets sold is 

s + g = 525

the money collected is 

4s + 6g = 2876

so you have 2 equations in 2 unknowns that need to be solved simultaneously

s + g = 525
4s + 6g = 2876

hope this helps