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Mrs. Rodrigues was selling two kinds of raffle tickets for $1.50 and $3.50. The number of $1.50 tickets sold was 5 more than three times the number of $3.50 tickets sold. She earned a total of $1,607.50. How many $1.50 tickets were sold?
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Reiny
expensive tickets --- x
cheap tickets ------ 3x+5
3.5x + 1.5(3x+5) = 1607.5
solve for x
cheap tickets ------ 3x+5
3.5x + 1.5(3x+5) = 1607.5
solve for x
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