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Tickets to a school play cost $3 for students and $8 for adults. On opening night, $1,000 was collected and 150 tickets sold. Use substitution to solve a system of equations to find how many of each kind
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Tickets to a school play cost $3 for students and $8 for adults. On opening night, $1,000 was collected and 150 tickets sold. Use substitution to solve a system of equations to find how many of each kind of ticket were sold?

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Answer:

s+a=150

3s+8a=1000

a=-s+150

3s-8s+1200=1000

-5s=-200

s=40

a=110

40 student and 110 adult tickets were sold

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