{"id":566,"date":"2018-01-30T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:21:52","slug":"the-opera-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"The Opera Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Finkelstein bought some tickets for Puccini\u2019s opera La Boh\u00e8me starring the famous diva Lorelei von Morgenstern to sell them at a profit when tickets were scarce as Saturday approached.<\/p>\n<p>He bought 100 tickets, balcony box seats at 120 dollars, some good seats in the middle of the hall at fifty dollars and some normal seats at 25 dollars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can you work out how many tickets of each type Sam Finkelstein bought?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-566\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-566\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-566\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=566&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Finkelstein bought some tickets for Puccini\u2019s opera La Boh\u00e8me starring the famous diva Lorelei von Morgenstern to sell them at a profit when tickets were scarce as Saturday approached. 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