Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were 824 and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold?

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Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were 824 and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold?

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-03T14:26:01

I found:
#103# students
#206# adults

Explanation:

I am not sure but I suppose that they received #$824# from the selling of the tickets.
Let us call the number of adults #a# and students #s#. We get:
#3a+2s=824#
and
#a=2s#
we get substituting into the first:
#3(2s)+2s=824#
#6s+2s=824#
#8s=824#
#s=824/8=103# students
and so: #a=2s=2*103=206# adults.

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Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were 824 and twice as many adult tickets as student tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold?

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