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Adult tickets to a basketball game cost 5$. Student tickets cost 1$. A total of 2,874$ was collected on the sale of 1,246. How many of each type of ticket were sold?
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Adult tickets to a basketball game cost 5$. Student tickets cost 1$. A total of 2,874$ was collected on the sale of 1,246. How many of each type of ticket were sold?

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2,874 divided by 5 = 574.8
Since we know anything divided by 1 is that number.
We do 2,874 - 574.8 = 2,299.2
This is how we get our answer.

So,574.8 of the 1,246 tickets were Adult tickets and 2,299.2 tickets were student tickets.
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