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Your jazz band is selling tickets for a school dance. Student tickets are $8.00 and adult tickets are $15.00. If you sold 167 tickets for a total revenue of $1630, how many of each ticket did you hand sell?

Write and solve a system of equations for each scenario.

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Answer:

Explanation:

8s + 15a = 1630

s + a = 167

8s + 15a = 1630

-8s - 8a = -1336

7a = 294

a = 42 adult tickets

s + 42 = 167

s = 125 student tickets

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