The school production of our town was a big success for opening night 357 tickets were sold students paid $3.50 each while non student paid $5.50 each. if a total of $1455.50 was collected how many students and how many non students attended?

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2022-07-26

The school production of our town was a big success for opening night 357 tickets were sold students paid $3.50 each while non student paid $5.50 each. if a total of $1455.50 was collected how many students and how many non students attended?

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Beginner2022-07-27Added 17 answers

Let A denotes the number of students and B denotes the number non students.
Then A + B = 357 ( 1 )
and 3.50A + 5.50B = 1455.50 or 7A + 11B = 2911 ( 2 )
solving ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) we get
A = 254 anf B = 103
Therefore, the number of students is 254 and the number of non students is 103

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