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You sell tickets at school for fundraisers. You sold car wash tickets, silly string fight tickets and dance tickets – for a total of 380 tickets sold. The car wash tickets were $5 each, the silly sting fight tickets were $3 each and the dance tickets were $10 each. If you sold twice as many silly string tickets as car wash tickets, and you have $1460 total, how many dance tickets were sold?

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Answer:11 dance tickets were sold. ( approx )Step-by-step explanation:Let x represents the number of car wash tickets, y represents the number of silly string fight tickets and z represents number of dance tickets,Total tickets = 380,β‡’ x + y + z = 380 -----(1),The car wash tickets were $5 each, the silly string fight tickets were $3 each and the dance tickets were $10 each, also total cost is $1460,β‡’ 5x + 3y + 10z = 1460 ----(2)Also, there are twice as many silly string tickets as car wash tickets,β‡’ y = 2x -----(3) From equation (1) and (2),x + 2x + z = 380 β‡’ 3x + z = 380 -----(4)5x + 3(2x) + 10z = 1460 β‡’ 11x + 10z = 1460 ------(5)For finding the value of z,3 Γ— equation (5) - 11 Γ— equation (4),We get,30z - 11z = 4380 - 418019z = 200z = 10.5263157895 β‰ˆ 11Hence, 11 dance tickets were sold.