word problem help

[lilmama]

can someone help me with this word problem???/

a bleacher ticket costs $4.25 and a grandstand tiocket costs $6.50...If 18,000 tickets were sold and $103,050 was recieved from ticket sales, how manyt of each ticket were sold??


could you show me how to set it up and solve it...thanks

 

[stapel]

Please see the reply posted here.

Eliz.

 

[TchrWill]

can someone help me with this word problem???/

a bleacher ticket costs $4.25 and a grandstand tiocket costs $6.50...If 18,000 tickets were sold and $103,050 was recieved from ticket sales, how manyt of each ticket were sold??

Let b and g equal the respective numbers of bleacher and grandstand seats sold.

Then, b + g = 18,000 and 4.25b + 6.5g = 103,050.

I'm convinced you can take it from here.