Reserved seat tickets for the football game cost $4.00 each and general admission tickets cost $3.00 each. After the game is over, the turnstile count shows 1787 people attended the game. The total receipts were $5792. Find the number of each kind of ticket sold ...

I got these equations

4x+3y=5792

x+y=1787

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Chloe Pratt

Mathematics

19 January, 01:10

Reserved seat tickets for the football game cost $4.00 each and general admission tickets cost $3.00 each. After the game is over, the turnstile count shows 1787 people attended the game. The total receipts were $5792. Find the number of each kind of ticket sold ...

I got these equations

4x+3y=5792

x+y=1787

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Emeline · Answer 1

Basil you, u use elimination to eliminate x, then I solve for y. U then use the value of y u just and plug it back into the original equation to find x.