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Admission to a baseball game is $2.50 for general admission and $5.50 for reserved seats. The receipts were $3702.00 for 1140 paid admissions. How many ticket were sold?

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1140

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User Yeasin Ar Rahman
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x = number of general admission tickets
y = number of reserved seat tickets

2.50x + 5.50y = 3702.00
x + y = 1140

After you solve this system of equations you find that
x = 856 general admission tickets
y = 284 reserved seat tickets
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