There were 175 tickets sold for the upcoming event in the gym. If students tickets cost $5 and adult

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There were 175 tickets sold for the upcoming event in the gym. If students tickets cost $5 and adult tickets are $8, tell me how many tickets were sold if gate receipts totaled $1028?

Let s be the number of student tickets and a be the number of adult tickets. We are given:
a + s = 175
8a + 5s = 1028

There are 3 ways to solve this, all of which give us:
a = 51
s = 124

Substitution Method
Elimination Method
Cramers Method