Question

tickets for the senior luau are on sale. student tickets are $5 and non-students tickets are $9. A group of great friends bought a total of 14 tickets and spent $98.
Write a system of equations to represent the situation above

Answer 1

number of student tickets --- x
number of non-student tickets = 14-x

5x + 9(14-x) = 98

solve for x, the sub into my definitions.

or, if you want the system of equations

number of student tickets --- x
number of non-student tickets = y

x + y = 14
5x + 9y = 98