admission to the school fair is $2.50 for students and $3.75 for others. if 2848 admissions were col

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admission to the school fair is $2.50 for students and $3.75 for others. if 2848 admissions were collected for a total of 10,078.75, how many students attended the fair

Let the number of students be s and the others be o. We're given two equations:

1. o + s = 2848
2. 3.75o + 2.50s = 10078.75

Since we have no coefficients for equation 1, let's solve this the fast way using substitution. Rearrange equation 1 by subtracting o from each side to isolate s

1. o = 2848 - s
2. 3.75o + 2.50s = 10078.75

Now substitute equation 1 into equation 2:
3.75(2848 - s) + 2.50s =10078.75

To solve for s, we type this equation into our search engine and we get:
s = 481