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The Latin Club charted a bus to travel to and participate in a state competition. The cost for each adult to ride the bus was $25 and the cost for each student to ride the bus was $15.

A total of 17 people rode the bus. The total paid for the bus was $305.

Let a represent the number of adults and s represent the number of students.

Finish the equations below to represent the system and then solve.



25

15

Answer :

a + s = 17
25a + 15s = 305
on solving for the values of two variables. we get a = 5 and s = 12

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