SOLUTION: a movie theater charges $10 for an adult ticket and $7 for a child ticket. they sold 172 tickets altogether and made $1480 in ticket sales. how many of each did they sell?
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Question 906455: a movie theater charges $10 for an adult ticket and $7 for a child ticket. they sold 172 tickets altogether and made $1480 in ticket sales. how many of each did they sell?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39615) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two very recent requests seem to really be the same problem as different examples:
906455 (2014-09-26 19:10:21): a movie theater charges $10 for an adult ticket and $7 for a child ticket. they sold 172 tickets altogether and made $1480 in ticket sales. how many of each did they sell?
906454 (2014-09-26 19:04:38): A total of 1,025 tickets were sold for a game for a total of $1,250. If adult tickets sold for $2.00 and children's tickets sold for $1.00, how many of each kind of ticket were sold?
ASSIGN VARIABLES
a = ticket price for one adult
c = ticket price for one child
T = how many tickets sold
R = revenue or sales of tickets sold
x = UNKNOWN, how many children tickets sold
y = UNKNOWN, how many adult tickets sold
Account for number of tickets:
Account for sales or revenue:
system of equations to solve for x and y, ;
The Elimination Method will probably be the best way, but substitution method is still
perfectly acceptable to use, and maybe some combination of both.
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