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The drama club is selling tickets to their play to raise money for the show's expenses. Each student ticket sells for $5.50 and each adult ticket sells for $10. The auditorium can hold at most 140 people. The drama club must make no less than $1100 from ticket sales to cover the show's costs. If

xrepresents the number of student tickets sold and
y represents the number of adult tickets sold, write and solve a system of inequalities graphically and determine one possible solution.

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Answer:

x=66 y=74

Explanation:

5.5x + 10y = 1100

x + y = 140

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y = 140 - x

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5.5x + 10(140-x) = 1100

5.5x + 1400 - 10x = 1100

-4.5x = -300

x = 66.67

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x = 66

y = 74

= $1103

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