SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $8 and child tickets cost $1. If there were 22 people at a performance and the theater collected $50 from ticket sales, how many children attended th
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Question 92280: Adult tickets for a play cost $8 and child tickets cost $1. If there were 22 people at a performance and the theater collected $50 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play?
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A+C=22 OR A=22-C
8A+C=50 REPLACE A BY (22-C) & SOLVE FOR C
8(22-C)+C=50
176-8C+C=50
-7C=50-176
-7C=-126
C=-127/-7
C=18 FOR THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN TICKETS.
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