SOLUTION: The owner the Old Fashion Movie House wants to divide his 1800-seat cinema into
three sections, pit, house and balcony with tickets costing $20, $35, and $50 respectively.
He wan
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Question 1138607: The owner the Old Fashion Movie House wants to divide his 1800-seat cinema into
three sections, pit, house and balcony with tickets costing $20, $35, and $50 respectively.
He wants the sum seat places in pit and house to be 7 times that of balcony, and to earn $48,000
when all seats are sold out.
a. Derive a system of three equations showing the information given.
b. Using either 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫′
𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞 or 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝, find how many of seats must he have in each
section?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Only a start -
p pit
h house
b balcony
Divide revenue equation by 5:
System of Equations:
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you may like to try https://matrix.reshish.com/cramer.php .
p = 1225
h = 350
b = 225
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