There were 436 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. The general admission tickets cost ​$6.50 and the upper reserved tickets cost ​$8.00. The total amount of money spent was ​$3284.00. How many of each kind of ticket were​ purchased? How many general admission tickets were​ purchased?
How many upper reserved tickets we purchased? ___

136 general admission tickets were purchased

300 upper reserved tickets were purchases

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a classic system of equations problem. Let the number of general admission tickets sold be and the number of reserved tickets sold be . We can write the following system of equations:

Multiply the second equation by -8 and add both equations to isolate :

Now substitute into to find the number of reserved tickets sold:

687.09 dollars       happy now

step-by-step explanation: 6870

1857 times .63 equals 1169.91 subtract that from 1857 you get 687.09

step-by-step explanation:

you divide the denominator by the numerator on both sides and if the quotients are equal then the fractions are equivalent