SOLUTION: Disney held a breakfast for parents and their children to eat with Mickey And Minnie Mouse (and the rest of the gang too!) Adult tickets cost $17.95 and the children's tickets cost
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Question 1065807: Disney held a breakfast for parents and their children to eat with Mickey And Minnie Mouse (and the rest of the gang too!) Adult tickets cost $17.95 and the children's tickets cost $12.95. Disney made $7355 from ticket sales from a total of 500 people that attended. How many adults and how many children were at the breakfast?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let
represent the number of adults and
represent the number of children, then
Solve for
and
. Hint: solve the first equation for either of the variables in terms of the other and then use substitution.
John

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