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Admission for students is $4.00 and adults are $8.00 and a total of $1808 was made in sales. If there was 325 fans at the game, how many were adults and students?

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In order to solve for the number of adults and students, we'll have to create a few variables.

's' will stand for students and 'a' will stand for adults.

We can make two equations with what we've been given:

4s + 8a = 1808
s + a = 325

We can use the subtraction method in order to solve this equation. Multiply the second equation by -4 (We do this in order to isolate one of the variables):

4s + 8a = 1808
-4s - 4a = -1300
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4a = 508

We simply added the two equations together. Divide both sides by 4 and:

a = 127

Now that we know the number of adults who attended, we can input this variable into the second equation:

s + a = 325
s + 127 = 325
s = 198

127 adults attended and 198 students attended.
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Answer:

198 students and 127 adults

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