The attendance at two baseball games on successive nights was 77,000. The attendance on​ Thursday's game was 7000 more than​ two-thirds of the attendance at Friday​ night's game. How many people attended the baseball game each​ night?

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1 Answer
Feb 2, 2018

Friday night = " 42000 people"

Thursday night = " 35000 people"

Explanation:

Let the attendance of Friday night be x and the attendance of Thursday night be y.

Here, given

x + y =77000 " " " " equation 1

y=2/3x+7000" " " " equation 2

When we put eq. 2 in eq. 1

x+2/3x+7000 = 77000

x+2/3x = 77000-7000

5/3x =70000

x =14000*3

x = 42000

y =35000