1. The total receipt for a basketball game are $1400 for 788tickets sold. Adults

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1. The total receipt for a basketball game are $1400 for 788tickets sold. Adults paid $2.50 for admission and studentspaid $1.25. How many of each kind of tickets weresold?
2. At the same moment, two trains leave chicago and NewYork. They move towards each other with constant speeds. Thetrain from Chicago is moving at speed of 40 miles per hour, and thetrain from New York is moving at speed of 60 miles per hour. The distance between Chicago and New York is 1000 miles. Howlong after their departure will they meet 3. A barge has speed over water of 5 miles per hour. Ariver flows downstream at the speed of 1 miles per hour. Howlong will it take the barge to go from point A to point B upstream,and then back, if the distance from A to B is 24 miles?


4. Tyler's parents pay him $0.50 to do the laundryand $1.25 to mow the lawn. In one month, he does the laundry6 more times than he mowslawn. If his parents pay him $12.75 thatmonth, how many times did he mow the lawn?
1. The total receipt for a basketball game are $1400 for 788tickets sold. Adults paid $2.50 for admission and studentspaid $1.25. How many of each kind of tickets weresold?
2. At the same moment, two trains leave chicago and NewYork. They move towards each other with constant speeds. Thetrain from Chicago is moving at speed of 40 miles per hour, and thetrain from New York is moving at speed of 60 miles per hour. The distance between Chicago and New York is 1000 miles. Howlong after their departure will they meet 3. A barge has speed over water of 5 miles per hour. Ariver flows downstream at the speed of 1 miles per hour. Howlong will it take the barge to go from point A to point B upstream,and then back, if the distance from A to B is 24 miles?


4. Tyler's parents pay him $0.50 to do the laundryand $1.25 to mow the lawn. In one month, he does the laundry6 more times than he mowslawn. If his parents pay him $12.75 thatmonth, how many times did he mow the lawn?

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Only ONE question perpost!!!! 1. The total receipt for a basketball game are $1400 for 788tickets sold. Adults paid $2.50 for admission and studentspaid $1.25. How many of each kind of tickets were sold?
Let A= no. of adult tickets and S= no. of student tickets A + S =788           multiply by neg 125 2.50 A + 1.25 S = 1400   multiply by 100 -125A - 125 S = - 98500 250 A + 125S = 140000 125A            = 41500 divide by 125 Adult tickets =332 A + S = 788   332 + S = 788   Student tickets =456 2.50(332) + 1.25(456) = 1400 830 + 570 = 1400

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