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A total of 702 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 52 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

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s=adult tickets sold
s+52= student tickets sold
s+s+52=702
2s=650
s=325
325 adult tickets were sold
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