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A total of 300 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adults tickets sold. How many adult tickets were sold?

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75 Adults
225 Students

You can get this information using this system of equations:

x + y = 300
x - 3y = 0
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