SOLUTION: a movie theatre has 2 ticket prices 8.00 for adults and 5.00 for children. If the box office took in 4116 from the sale of 600 tickets how many tickets of each kind of ticket

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Question 1097323: a movie theatre has 2 ticket prices 8.00 for adults and 5.00 for children. If the box office took in 4116 from the sale of 600 tickets how many tickets of each kind of ticket
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Multiply eq. 1 by 5 and subtract from eq. 2,


Solve for A, then use either equation to solve for C.

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