The local community theater sold a total of 240 tickets for Saturday night’s performance. They sold 180 more full-price tickets than discount tickets. Which system of equations can be used to model this situation?

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anonymous · Answer

assume that the number of full price tickets sold is x
and the number of discount tickets sold is y

since the total number of tickets sold is 240
then x+y=240
and since full price tickets sold were 180 more than the discount tickets
x=y+180