Question

You are selling tickets for a high school basketball game. Student
tickets cost $3 and general admission tickets cost $5. You sell 350
tickets and collect $1,450. How many student tickets did you sell?

Answer 1

This is a system of equations with 2 variables. What you first need to figure out is what is x and what is y. What are the two things that you don't know?

Answer 2

need 2 know student ticket #

Answer 3

What is the other item that you don't know? There are two. You guessed one, number of student tickets sold. What is your other unknown?

Answer 4

idk

Answer 5

3x + 5y = 1450
-3x -3x

5y = (1450 - 3x)
idk I'm pretty sure thats the first step

Answer 6

There are two types of tickets being sold: Student tickets and general admission tickets.

Answer 7

oh ok

Answer 8

Now, what are the two equations that you will have that describe this situation. One equation will be the total number of tickets sold, which is a combination of student tickets and general admissions tickets. What is the other equation?

Answer 9

sorry had 2 g 2 restroom
umm is it 3*x+5*x=1,450 @dcabeche

Answer 10

Yes, your two equations should be \[x + y = 350\] and \[3x +5y = 1450\]

Answer 11

oh okay thks a lot
that really helped :)

Answer 12

200 standard 5 dollar tickets, 150 three dollar tickets. Lots of trial and error because I didn't want to make a system with mental math.