Problema Solution

There are 618 tickets sold for a baseball game

The activity card holder tickets are $1.25

The non holder tickets are $2.50

The total money collected was $1178.75

How many of each ticket was sold?

Answer provided by our tutors

Let x be number of active card holders tickets

let y be number of non holder cards tickets

 

we have x+y=618

also 1.25x+2.5y=1178.75

solving the above equations, we get 

x=293 and y=325 tickets