A theater is showing a ballet performance. Tickets are available on three levels in the performance hall. Lower level tickets cost $35, mezzanine tickets cost $25, and upper balcony tickets cost $15. For a certain performance the theater sold 5 times as many lower level tickets as balcony tickets. The theater sold $37,500 in tickets that performance. The money made from mezzanine tickets alone was 4 times the money made from balcony tickets. How many of lower level tickets where sold for that performance?

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x= -3 and

step-by-step explanation:

to find the roots of a cubic, use division or factoring to find the factors then set equal to 0. as this is a difference of cubes, it factors into

where a is the cube root of .

here   this is 27 and the cube root of 27 is 3. so we write using the form:

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set each factor to 0 and solve for x.

x-3=0

x=3

the quadratic expression does not factor and must be solved using the quadratic formula.

where a = 1, b=3, and c=9

this cubic has two complex roots.