A petting zoo sells two types of tickets. The standard ticket, for admission only, costs $5. The premium ticket, which includes admission and food to give to the animals, costs $12. One Saturday, the petting zoo sold a total of 250 tickets and collected a total of $2,300 from ticket sales. Which of the following systems of equations can be used to find the number of standard tickets, s, and premium tickets, p, sold on that Saturday?
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for standard tickets and
for premium tickets. On that Saturday the petting zoo collected a total of $2,300 from ticket sales; thus,
. These two equations are correctly represented in choice A.
Choice B is incorrect. The second equation in the system represents the cost per standard ticket as $12, not $5, and the cost per premium ticket as $5, not $12. Choices C and D are incorrect. The equations represent the total collected from standard and premium ticket sales as $250, not $2,300, and the total number of standard and premium tickets sold as $2,300, not $250. Additionally, the first equation in choice D represents the cost per standard ticket as $12, not $5, and the cost per premium ticket as $5, not $12.
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