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A total of 645 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 55 fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

Result

a =  350

Solution:


645 = a + (a-55)

2a = 700

a = 350

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