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Admission to a car show cost $5 for each ticket. After selling only 20 tickets, they decided to lower the price to $3 each. If they raise $217, how many tickets did they sell in all?
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Admission to a car show cost $5 for each ticket. After selling only 20 tickets, they decided to lower the price to $3 each. If they raise $217, how many tickets did they sell in all?

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20x $5=100
117 / $3 = 39 tickets
39 + 20 = 59
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59 tickets were sold total
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