SOLUTION: concert tickets cost $24 an adult, $15 a child, and $12 a senior, If they made $5670 dollars, and 5 times as many adults attended as seniors, and 2 times as many children attended

Question 393885: concert tickets cost $24 an adult, $15 a child, and $12 a senior, If they made $5670 dollars, and 5 times as many adults attended as seniors, and 2 times as many children attended then seniors, how could i set up a system of equations ,and find how much of each ticket was sold?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of senior tickets sold
Let = number of child tickets sold
Let = number of adult tickets sold
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given:

Now by substitution:

and, since

and, also

35 senior, 70 child, and 175 adult tickets were sold
Check answer by plugging back into

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