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Your school’s student council held a dance after a basketball game. Tickets were

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Question

Your school’s student council held a dance after a basketball game. Tickets were $2 each for students and $3 each for nonstudents. You know that there were 6 nonstudents at the dance and that, overall, the student council made $148. How many students attended the dance? (Sowder 296)
Sowder, Judith. Loose-leaf Version for Reconceptualizing Mathematics: for Elementary School Teachers, 3rd Edition. W.H. Freeman & Company, 20161118. VitalBook file.
Your school’s student council held a dance after a basketball game. Tickets were $2 each for students and $3 each for nonstudents. You know that there were 6 nonstudents at the dance and that, overall, the student council made $148. How many students attended the dance? (Sowder 296)
Sowder, Judith. Loose-leaf Version for Reconceptualizing Mathematics: for Elementary School Teachers, 3rd Edition. W.H. Freeman & Company, 20161118. VitalBook file.
Your school’s student council held a dance after a basketball game. Tickets were $2 each for students and $3 each for nonstudents. You know that there were 6 nonstudents at the dance and that, overall, the student council made $148. How many students attended the dance? (Sowder 296)
Sowder, Judith. Loose-leaf Version for Reconceptualizing Mathematics: for Elementary School Teachers, 3rd Edition. W.H. Freeman & Company, 20161118. VitalBook file.

Explanation / Answer

Let x students and y non students attended

y=6

2x+3y=148

2x+3*6=148

2x+18=148

2x=130

x=65

So, 65 students attended the dance