Tickets to a movie cost 7.25 for adults and 5.50 for students. A group of friends bought 8 tickets for 52.75
Write a system of equations to represent this situation.

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Tickets to a movie cost 7.25 for adults and 5.50 for students. A group of friends bought 8 tickets for 52.75
Write a system of equations to represent this situation.

anonymous · Answer

lets identify some variables...
a = # adult tickets
s = # sstudent tickets

anonymous · Answer

so lets work through the first equation, if they bought 8 tickets....what is one of our equations?

anonymous · Answer

Zelda please refer to the policy about just providing answers...that is not very helpful to them

anonymous · Answer

That is entirely up to you, be careful...they do watch this site for just giving answers.

anonymous · Answer

everyone...