SOLUTION: At the city museum, child admission is $5.90 and adult admission is $9.70 . On Wednesday, twice as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $784

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Question 1096472: At the city museum, child admission is
$5.90
and adult admission is
$9.70
. On Wednesday, twice as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of
$784.30
. How many child tickets were sold that day?

Answer by greenestamps(13198)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Since the number of adult tickets was twice the number of child tickets, make a "packet" of two adult tickets and 1 child ticket. The cost of each of those packets is


Now divide the total ticket sales by the cost of one of these packets, to find how many packets were sold:


31 of the packets were sold; that means 62 adult tickets and 31 child tickets.

Answer: 31 child tickets were sold.

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