Question

Admission to a baseball game is $2.00 for general admission and $3.50 for reserved seats. The receipts were $2716.00 for 1139 paid admissions. How many of each ticket were sold?

Answer 1

Let G be the number of general seats sold.

Let R be the number of reserved seats sold.

The total number of seats sold is G + R = 1139

Since general seats costs $2 each, 2G is the total receipts from general tickets sales.

Since reserve seats costs $3.50 each, 3.5R is the total receipts from reserved ticket sales.

The total receipts is 2G + 3.5R = 2716

We now have two equations in two unknowns and can solve for G and R.