Question

In cinima 300 tickets were sold. The total sale of the tickets was 1250.If thr tickets were of two denominations of 2.50 and 5.00 how many of each denominations were sold

Answer 1

let no .of 2.5 tickets be x and no.of 5.00 tickets be y
By the problem
x+y=30 -eq 1
2.5x+5y=1250
=>5x+10y=2500
=>x+2y=500 -eq 2
Subtracting eq 1 from 2
y=200
x=100