The very busy Freshman class is selling tickets for an upcoming field hockey game. The class sells 20 more student tickets than adult tickets. The adult tickets cost $4 and the student tickets cost $2. The class made a total of $280 from ticket sales. How many of each type of ticket did they sell? Elaborate and clarify your reasoning.
1a. Define the variables in this system
b. Create equations to describe the relationships in this system between the variables
2. Solve the system of equations by using the substitution method.
3. Identify at least one other strategy/method you could have used to solve the problem.

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?