Question

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Tickets to a movie costs $7.25 for adults and $5.50 for students. A group of friends purchased 8 tickets for $52.75. How many adult tickets and student tickets were purchased?

X=?
Y=?

Answer 1

Answer:

5 adult and 3 student tickets were purchased

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x  be the number of adult tickets . Then  8 − x  is the number of student  tickets .

7.25 x  + 5.5 (8 − x ) = 52.75  

7.25 x  + 44 − 5.5 x = 52.75  

1.75 x = 8.75  

x = 5