There were 200 tickets sold for a college basketball game. Tickets were $4.50 for students and $9 for adults. The total amount collected was $1485. How many of each type of ticket were sold

tickets were sold to student and tickets were sold to adults

Explanation:

Let the number of tickets purchased by students be "X" and the number of tickets purchased by adults  be "Y"

Given

Total number of tickets sold

Total amount collected by selling tickets dollar

Cost of one ticket of student dollar

Cost of one ticket of adult 9 dollar

Two equation are as follows

------Eq (1)

-------- Eq (2)

Multiplying eq (1) by 9 and subtracting from equation 2 we get

Substituting the value of X in equation 1 we get

Therefore, tickets were sold to student and tickets were sold to adults

x=3

step-by-step explanation:

this is really simple i saw that there was only one term (5x) and thought if that was 15 what would i have to multiply everything else to get it there? well if 5x became 15 then x would have to be 3 so plug the 3 in the x for the other equations and you get 15 for the other ones. so there you go. : )