Question

The attendance at the All-Star baseball game was 240 people. Box seats cost $2 and Clubhouse seats cost $3. Total ticket sales were $550. How many of each type of ticket were sold?

Answer 1

What do u think?

Answer 2

soo what u do is 240x 3

Answer 3

then that tells u what the answer is

Answer 4

Do you know how to set up linear equations?

Answer 5

We can put box seats as x, clubhouse seats as y

So we have
x+y=240
2x+3y=550

Answer 6

An easy way to find the x and y value is using desmos or some kind of graphing calculator to find the intersection point, but you could also use, for example, the substitution or elimination method to do this