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At Friday's Football game, 1,294 tickets were sold for a total amount of $8,816.00. IF
each student ticket costs $5.00, and each adult ticket costs $8.00, how many
student tickets were purchased?

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Answer: 3,385.00

Step-by-step explanation: To find the number of student tickets sold, we need to first figure out the total number of tickets sold at the football game. We can do this by dividing the total amount of money collected by the cost of each ticket. In this case, we have:

Total number of tickets = 8,816.00 / (5.00 + 8.00)

= 8,816.00 / 13.00

= 677.5

Since the total number of tickets sold must be an integer, we can round this number down to 677. This means that 677 student tickets were sold at the football game.

We can verify this answer by calculating the total amount of money collected from the student tickets and checking that it is equal to the total amount collected at the game:

Total amount collected from student tickets = 677 * 5.00

= 3,385.00

Since the total amount collected from the student tickets is less than the total amount collected at the game, we know that this is the correct answer.

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