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The owner of a movie theater was couting the money from 1 day's ticket sales. She knew that a total of 150 tickets were sold. Adult tickets c
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The owner of a movie theater was couting the money from 1 day's ticket sales. She knew that a total of 150 tickets were sold. Adult tickets cost $7.50 each, children's tickets cost $4.75 each. If the total receipts for the day were $891.25, how many of each kind of ticket were sold?
if you could just send me the equation that would be really helpful
Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let adults be x and childern be y
x+y=150
y=150-x
750x+475(150-x)=89125
750x+71250-475x=89125
275x=17875 (divide both sides by 275)
x=65
150-65=85(y)
Hence, there were 65 tickets for adults and 85 tickets for childern.
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