Question

A school baseball game earned $3416.90 from 5716 paid admissions. If grandstand tickets sold for 65 cents each and bleacher tickets sold for 40 cents each, how many of the latter were sold?

Answer 1

To answer this item, we let x be the number of grandstand tickets and y be the number of bleacher tickets. The system of linear equation that would best represent the given is,
x + y = 5716
0.65x + 0.40y = 3416.90
The values of x and y are 4522 and 1194, respectively. Thus, the answer to this item is 1194.