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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Answer 1 · 2018-02-02T17:37:06

Friday night #= " 42000 people"#

Thursday night #= " 35000 people"#

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#