If the total money collected was $980,how many of each type of ticket were sold?

Admission to a football game was one dollar for students and two dollars for adults there were 80 more student tickets sold in adult tickets
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Let S=number of students and A=number of adults.

Total cost of tickets=980=S+2A and S=A+80. 

Substitute for S: 980=A+80+2A, so 3A=900 and A=300, so S=380.

So there weee 380 students and 300 adults.

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