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3) You are selling raffle tickets. You sell tickets to adults and children. You sell a

total of 475 fickets. Edult tickets cost $3 per ticket and children tickets cost $2
per ticket. You eam a total of $1200. How many adult tickets and how many
children tickets were sold?

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250 adults and 225 children
User HOKBONG
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Answer:

  • 250 adult tickets and 225 children tickets

Explanation:

Let adult tickets be a and children tickets be c.

System of equations as per given:

  • a + c = 475
  • 3a + 2c = 1200

Substituting c in the second equation

  • c = 475 - a
  • 3a + 2(475 - a) = 1200
  • 3a + 950 - 2a = 1200
  • a = 1200 - 950
  • a = 250

Then, finding c:

  • c = 475 - 250 = 225

Answer:

  • 250 adult tickets and 225 children tickets
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