SOLUTION: Stacey is selling tickets to the school play. The tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children. She sells twice as many adult tickets as children's tickets and brings in a total o

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Question 1103590: Stacey is selling tickets to the school play. The tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children. She sells twice as many adult tickets as children's tickets and brings in a total of $120. How many of each kind of ticket did she sell?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39629)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
VARIABLES
a    number of adult tickets
c    number of children tickets


DESCRIPTION TRANSLATED INTO EQUATIONS, LITERALLY


Note that the first equation is the same as .

SIMPLIFY THE SECOND EQUATION, MULTIPLYING BOTH SIDES BY :



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