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?

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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?

Lilly47098 · Answer

What do u think?

tessybunny · Answer

soo what u do is 240x 3

tessybunny · Answer

then that tells u what the answer is

snowflake0531 · Answer

Do you know how to set up linear equations?

snowflake0531 · Answer

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

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

snowflake0531 · Answer

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