The drama club sold $779 worth of tickets to the school play. Student tickets cost $3 apiece and tickets for everyone else cost $5 each. What equation relates the number of student tickets that were sold, s, and the number of other tickets that were sold, t, written in standard form?

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Just add up the revenue from each kind of ticket. The total must be 779:

3s+5t = 779
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