admission to a basketball game was $1 for students and $2 for adults. The number of students tickets sold was $80 more than the number of adult tickets sold. If the total money collected was $980, how many of each type of ticket were sold?

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wintersuntime · Answer

Need help solving by using any method

anonymous · Answer

Subtract 80 from 980, gives you 900, divide that in half, that gives you the amount of adult tickets. 450 divided by 2, 225 adult tickets were sold, then 450 plus the 80 is 458, so there were 458 student tickets sold.

wintersuntime · Answer

thanks

anonymous · Answer

Glad I could help :)